Description
This Quality Assurance (QA) testing role will focus on the full functional testing life cycle for various functional application testing initiatives for the portfolio monitoring platform. This includes defining test strategies, developing test plans, creation of test cases, test execution, and results reporting.Responsibilities will also include working closely with a Dublin based QA Lead, a US-based QA Director for QA process definition and a US-based Business Analysis team for requirements definition.
This individual contributor role requires strong attention-to-detail, analytical skills, organizational skills, and a demonstrated ability to work effectively with developers, business analysts, and system administrators.
This is a great opportunity to join and help work as part of a very talented team working with cutting edge technologies in an exciting business domain and to participate in a highly visible, multi-year, strategic project within FIMT.
Responsibilities:
Creation of test plans and corresponding test cases to ensure thorough testing of business requirements in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Test case execution, defect documentation and tracking, and regression through all system tiers.
Proactively communicating with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining to test creation or execution.
Identify and effectively document a suite of test cases suitable for an automated regression test suite.
Accurate and timely status reporting with Manager, including issues prohibiting progress when appropriate.
Qualifications:
5+ years experience with the full spectrum of functional Quality Assurance testing and systems development life cycles a must.
Experience with functional test execution utilizing an Agile development methodology.
Experience with acceptance test-driven development approaches, including behavior-driven development.
Experience with testing management utilizing HP's Quality Center including defect tracking, reporting and metrics.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Skill with SQL as a data mining tool.
Experience working with Unix.
A leader with a collaborative work style.
Experience working with an off-shore development and testing team.
Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fluid organization where priorities shift to respond to changing business needs.
Additional skills desired, but not required:
Knowledge of the Financial Services and Mutual Fund industry.
Detailed knowledge of investing concepts and various investment vehicles.
Experience working on trading systems.
Understanding of a generic trading system data model.
Experience with developing automated test cases, specifically in Cucumber-based solutions.
Experience in the following areas: XML, Java, .Net, Web Services and familiarity with MS SQL Server and database concepts.