Software Qa Engineer

This role’s primary responsibility is to perform testing for finance and trading software applications.

This role’s primary responsibility is to perform testing for finance and trading software applications. The QA Engineer will be expected to analyze software system specifications, design comprehensive test procedures and plans, perform the tests, and effectively report their results. They will also coordinate with project teams to establish/maintain test environments and suitable test data.

The Engineer’s extended responsibilities encompass all aspects of quality assurance in the Agile software development sprint cycle, including: the design of test strategies; test case documentation; defect analysis; sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives; and collaboration with solution analysts, developers, and other QA engineers. Occasionally, they may also be asked to assist others with development of automated testing programs.

This role will also partner with delivery and support teams to review and understand business requirements, assist with technical specifications, and help to resolve escalated client issues.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of software QA experience involving manual testing on a variety of applications
  • Including 1+ years of experience developing or working with automated tests
• Strong technical fluency in designing and executing test scenarios of all types: smoke, regression, integration, usability, and performance tests
• Proficiency with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, TestRail, etc.
• Broad familiarity with general patterns of software architecture and engineering
• Experience testing stateless platforms, such as REST or message queue systems
  • In particular, proficiency with an API testing tool such as Postman
• Experience with web technologies: JavaScript, HTML, and REST
• Understanding of relational database concepts, management tools, and basic SQL queries
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to collaborate across all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, results driven culture
• Demonstrated ability to show initiative, resourcefulness, good judgment, and attention to detail
• Willingness to travel, should the opportunity arise

Preferred Skills

• Programming experience in one of JavaScript, Java, C#, or TypeScript

Experience or familiarity with the financial services industry