Quality Assurance Engineer at Boston

Job Description

Quality Assurance Engineer

Primary Responsibilities:

• The primary responsibilities of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer position will focus on developing test strategies, and plans for our software and data delivery on behalf of the Financial Solutions business line. This individual will be responsible for collaborating with QA peers, engineering teams and business analysts to design, create, execute manual and automated tests to validate enhancements to our n-tiered research platform
• Work closely with the Quantitative product team to develop and execute test plans for verifying new financial applications - requires deep technical skills (SQL/P-SQL, VBA scripting)
• Oversee the development and execution of test strategies based upon requirements/design, much of which will be the product of extensive whiteboard sessions
• Develop deep domain knowledge in terms of requirements, functions, data models and transactions for the research platform
• Be effective working on a small team in an agile delivery environment
• Build/maintain an automated testing framework that facilitates rapid development of test cases
• Ensure adherence to QA process best practices including defect management, test case execution and metrics reporting, requirements tractability, component-based test design
• Lead test strategy, test plan, test case and defect review meetings with business analysts, developers and fellow QA team members
• Participate in the identification and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities in processes, standards, and procedures in the test automation space

Qualification

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Finance from an accredited college/university
• 7+ years demonstrated work experience or an equivalent combination of related training and experience
• 7+ years experience with the full spectrum of functional Quality Assurance testing and Agile Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience with testing management utilizing HPs Quality Center
• Programming/Scripting experience with VBA, C, VBScript, VB, Java, Perl or similar
• Knowledge of Test Automation scripting or other automation tool (Cucumber, QTP) is desired. At a minimum this person should be familiar with test automation concepts, and be able to demonstrate prior work experience developing test automation scripts
• Demonstrated ability to independently develop and execute comprehensive, technical test plans
• Experience with testing management utilizing HPs Quality Center
• Experience with Oracle databases and basic expertise with SQL
• Familiarity with UNIX command line a plus, ability to use the vi editor or utilities to view file contents
• Knowledge of quantitative portfolio management/ Asset Allocation investment methodology a plus

Randstad Technologies is an EOE-M/F/V/D and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Randstad Holding nv, a $20.0 billion global provider of HR services and the second largest staffing organization in the world.

Job Requirements

 
Country: USA, State: Massachusetts, City: Boston, Company: Randstad Technologies.