QA Capital Markets

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QA Capital Markets  

Job Title: QA Capital Markets

Company: Direct IT Recruiting Inc.

Location: Toronto

Position: 6 Month Contract

Job Category: Quality Assurance

Career Level: Senior      

Work Experience: 5+ years of QA, 2 years of capital markets, Oracle PL/SQL, MS SQL SSIS, VBA Scripting, HP ALM, UFT, Securities data management

Industry: Capital Markets                                 

DESCRIPTION

Responsible for building and executing test cases, develop and manage test data based on investments needs, maintaining and using the test environment, coordinating the release to certification environment. The incumbent needs to possess working knowledge of the comprehensive investment products/processes and the complexity of the technologies and processes certification environment and be able to effectively work with database management tools as well as platform admin tools/processes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Develop Project Quality Goals

- Assists in the development of project quality goals with project stakeholders

- Participates in requirements reviews

- Produces test reports and other management related test artifacts for assigned projects

2. Participate in Core Testing Activities

- Analyzes the requirements for testability

- Designs and develops test cases and suites based on project requirements and testing standards

- Creates and maintains test data

- Develop test scripts in SQL and UFT (QTP)

- Executes manual and automated test cases and scripts

- Identify, analyze, and document all the system errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated (and implied) requirements and design specifications

- Record and track defects throughout the defect life cycle

- Collect, analyze, and communicate test results

3. Test Environment Coordination

- Maintains the artifacts and the environment images for projects in collaboration with other IT departments

- Executes release installation and database/data updates for the Certification Environment during testing phase

4. User assistance

- Assists developers with test data and unit test case development

- Assists in the planning and execution of UAT and quality assessments

5. Process improvements

- Initiate, develop and implement industry best practices designed to increase product quality and team effectiveness

- Collaborate with project stakeholders and IT groups to seek continuous improvements

- Conduct research on tools/ideas for adoption

6. Other

- Participate in other Investments QA & Testing activities, as assigned

- Maintain excellent attention to detail while managing work which may become repetitive over time

- Mentor/coach Associate Investment Technical QA Analysts and Co-op Students

- Escalate quality concerns to management

- Other duties as assigned

Skills (Mandatory):

- A university/college degree or equivalent experience

- A minimum of 3 years working experience in Information Technology or Investment Business area with minimum of 2 years in a QA Testing area preferably in Capital Markets

- Working knowledge of Securities Data Management

- Ability to work independently in a fast changing environment. Results oriented, team player

- Good logical, analytical and problem solving skills.

- Advanced experience in developing in SQL, Oracle PS/SQL, MS SQL SSIS, MS Excel Macro, VBA Scripting

- Strong verbal and written communication/negotiation skills

- Demonstrated experience and passion in applying current QA testing methodologies

- Enthusiastic in finding defects and ideas to improve quality

- Ability to create clear and concise testing documents/defects

Skills (Nice to have):

- Knowledge/experience in metadata, ontology and semantic technology is a definite asset

- Knowledge/experience in data warehouse and cube testing is a definite asset

- Knowledge/experience in MDX Scripting

- Knowledge/experience in HP ALM (formerly QC) and UFT(formerly QTP)

- Knowledge/experience in financial data management system such as Markit EDM (formerly Cadis)

- Knowledgeable of applying current QA and Testing methodologies

Start date
Immediately
Duration
6 months
From
Direct IT Recruiting INC.
Published at
24.07.2014
Project ID:
747443
Contract type
Freelance
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