Company Description
At Testing Mavens quality is our #1 priority. We specialize in software testing bringing together the right skills and technology to ensure our client's product meets quality goals at every stage of development. Our expertise and experience in testing solutions set us apart in the industry.
Location: New Jersey / New York
Job Description:
We are looking for experienced professionals in Capital Markets Quality Assurance with a strong background in front office and operations technology. The ideal candidate will have expertise in functional testing with exposure to trading systems trade lifecycle booking and settlements platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Build out a QA team to support the front middle and back office systems.
- Identify and build a strategy for testing test automation defect tracking and integrated testing.
- Understand business requirements and define test strategies/plans for applications.
- Develop and maintain test plans test cases test data test backups and other QA artifacts.
- Build out QA workflow to ensure controls and effectiveness are in place.
- Execute test scripts via automation tools.
- Conduct smoke/sanity tests using automation for test readiness.
- Identify regression cases and participate in developing test suites.
- Perform integration regression compatibility and user acceptance testing phases.
- Develop utilities to enhance QA efficiencies.
- Participate in daily Agile standups iteration planning product demos and application walkthroughs.
- Maintain and track test deliverables in test management tools.
- Collaborate with business and development teams to deliver work items without ambiguity.
- Replicate production defects in lower environments.
Competencies:
- Prior functional testing experience with a minimum of 7 years.
- Strong functional and application testing skillset.
- Ability to review and understand complex concepts at a detailed level.
- Expertise in creating and maintaining test sets for complex application workflows.
- Proficiency with different automation tools and capability of executing test cases via automation tools.
- Experience working in a distributed team environment.
- Good problemsolving communication interpersonal and analytical skills.
- Knowledge in writing SQL queries.
- Proficiency with scripting Python Java
- Strong practical experience using Scrum Agile modeling and adaptive software development.
- Handson experience with test management tools and defect tracking tools like Jira RTC etc.
Qualifications:
- 1012 years of experience in delivering large multifunctional projects.
- Extensive experience in designing and executing test cases for GUI testing functionality regression and integration testing.
- Good understanding and analysis of business requirements and functional specifications.
- Indepth domain knowledge in capital markets and front office processes & systems.
- Ability to work with total commitment towards teamwork.
- Able to work independently with clients BAs and project teams spread across various locations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience working with Capital Markets products like Fixed Income Equities Structured Products –Derivatives Repos Securities Lending Secondary Loan Trading spanning from Front office to Back office including Risk and Finance.
- QA coordinator with a proven track record of stakeholder engagement and management.
- Handson experience in test strategy test planning test estimation test execution and defect management.