Senior QA Engineer

Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity.

With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Position

Purpose:

Will be expected to mentor and lead QA Analysts. As Seniot Staff QA you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging issues, performing root-cause analyses, defining corrective actions, and tracking quality assurance metrics . You will be responsible for our more junior test engineers to follow-up and coach them.

• Provide input to QA Manager on performance appraisals for all QA analysts.
• Act as a first point of contact for all QA activities. Become the Subject Matter Expert in the area assigned.
• Responsible for mentoring QA Analysts and ensuring best practices and procedures are being followed. Specific activities will include:
• Participates as a team member and/or leads a team executing the following tasks.
• Requirements analysis and decomposition
• Prioritization of test-related tasks
• Writing and executing of Test Cases
• Manual Test Execution
• Data Validation
• Defect Tracking; entry and reporting
• Test Status & Metrics Reporting
• Design and Document test plans for assign products
• Help define test environment (e.g., tools, simulators, etc…)
• Work with automation team to select test cases for automation and maintain a working Test Certification Test Suite
• Acts as advisor to QA Analysts to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
• Facilitate peer reviews for test plans, test cases, test execution and test metrics.
• Provide estimates and other inputs on the test effort to the Project Manager for test planning purposes
• Assist development in debugging and retesting reported defects as necessary
• During project testing periods on a daily basis provide and post project test metrics to the Project Manager as per the test methodology
• Work with the development team to perform root cause analysis of field reported defects
• Report defects in defect tracking system by providing detailed documentation as proof of test failures for repeatability.
• Recommends new SQA practices and policies to the team and management.
• Recognizes testing and product problems and recommends real world solutions.
• Compare testing metrics to exit criteria to provide SQA advice on product release.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or equivalent work experience required.
• 5 or more years in software quality assurance experience required.
• Required experience with

• Experience with people and resource management
  • Providing team with day to day direction
  • Communicating to QA Manager to provide data and metrics regarding project to management as required
• Testing Methods
  • Functional Testing
  • Black Box Testing
• Testing Types
  • System Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Compatibility Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing
• SDLC Models
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Preferred experience with
  • White Box Testing
  • Process Improvement
  • Performance Testing
  • Specialty Software:
  • VSTS
  • Other: XML, SQL, IVR
  • Experience with SQL, PL/SQL, database tools such as Sybase Interactive SQL a plus but not required
  • Experience with test automation and automation tools preferred but not required.
  • Experience with test management tools such as MS Azure preferred but not required.
  • Experience with defect management tools with some experience
  • Experience in an agile development and Use Case based testing a plus.

• 4 days per week in office