MSCI Internship – Risk Analytics QA Engineer (Summer, 2012) recruitment

MSCI Internship – Risk Analytics QA Engineer (Summer, 2012)

ABOUT MSCI Inc. (www.msci.com)

MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.

The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indices which include over 120,000 daily indices covering more than 70 countries; Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics covering global equity and fixed income markets; RiskMetrics market and credit risk analytics; ISS out-sourced proxy research, voting and vote reporting services; CFRA forensic accounting risk research, legal/regulatory risk assessment, and due-diligence; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.

For further information on MSCI, please visit our web site at www.msci.com

We are currently seeking Summer Intern – Risk Analytics QA Engineer to join Application Development team in Beijing, China.

Risk Analytics QA Engineer  

MSCI is seeking an internship candidate for Summer 2012 as an Analytical QA Engineer role within the Application Development Team. The Analytical QA team is a company-wide shared resource responsible for communicating with the Product Management, Research, and Development teams to develop and implement testing processes and procedures for industry adopted financial instruments, statistics, stress tests and reporting. Our goal is to ensure the 'highest level quality' and the 'fastest time to market' in our industry for our financial products. This is an exciting role that lies on the cusp on finance and technology. We currently have internship roles open in Beijing, PRC.  

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and extend our analytics regression tests to ensure complete and efficient coverage for all analytics engine statistics and asset types.

• Develop and extend independent validation tools and documentation used to ensure accuracy for all numbers produced by our analytics engines.

• Work with the Risk Research and Analytics Development teams to evaluate manual and regression test differences, check requirements, and extend test case coverage.

• Create and maintain appropriate documentation on all processes and procedures.

• Develop efficient test processes to support the production teams and maintain appropriate documentation.

• Ensure that all daily test processes are completed successfully and resolve problems with the assistance of the research and development teams.

• Assist in streamlining and improving the daily test processes.

Desired Qualifications:

• In process to receive a Masters degree or PhD with focus in finance or a degree in mathematics, physics, statistics, or another quantitative field with a strong knowledge of finance

• Creativity in problem solving for validation of complex models/algorithms – sometimes not closed-form

• Experienced with Matlab and/or Excel programming

• Interest working in an environment that combines finance and technology

• Adapts quickly and easily to working within a rapidly evolving state-of-the-art software architecture

• Comfortable working in a team and bringing people together across teams. Should enjoy working with technical people (software engineers and researchers) as well as business people (sales, account management, and product management).

• Strong sense of ownership in testing not just to specification but to real world financial cases – interest and knowledge of the market a plus

• Outstanding mathematical and analytical skills

• Detail oriented and logical thought process

• Familiarity with xml a plus

• Java a plus

Application Method:

• Please send your resume in word document to cheryl.deng@msci.com  and indicate position and location in subject title, e.g. “Summer Intern – Risk Analytics QA Engineer, Beijing”

• Please indicate your earliest start date and if you can work for 3-4 months on full-time basis, i.e. Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm.