Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Description
General Summary:
The candidate will be responsible for testing proprietary fixed income pricing applications.
Candidates must be capable of reviewing software applications objectively, work with Business Analysts and End-users to understand requirements and Developers to understand the impact of changes to assist debugging and enhancing applications.
The candidate will be required to review functional requirements to asses their impact on the software applications and formulate tests cases from them.
The candidate must be well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools and will rely on their extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
The candidate will be responsible for maintaining the test plans and manual test cases. The candidate must be capable of transforming manual test cases to run automatically using tools like HP Quick Test Professional.
Candidates will be responsible for assisting in ongoing general maintenance, technical support and incremental software upgrades for QA tools including the HP Mercury Suite and Serena TeamTrack.
The candidate must be capable of presenting regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports.
Technical Requirements:
· Experience with SQL and UNIX is required.
· Experience working with DBMSs including Sybase and Oracle is required
· Experience with tool like the HP Mercury Suite is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tools is preferred.
· Experience with using defect tracking tools is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tools is a preferred.
· Experience in the Financial Industry is required while experience with Fixed Income products preferred.
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to move easily between varied tasks.
· Eight years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance.
List PREFERRED degree(s), license(s), and/or certification(s):
Mercury Certification for Quality Center or QuickTest Professional
