QA Analyst (London) recruitment
Company Profile
Founded in 1997, Calypso Technology is a leading global application software provider for the capital markets industry, delivering an integrated suite of trading, risk and processing applications within many of the premier financial institutions including banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and other companies participating in the world’s financial markets.
Its innovative platform is the industry’s first integrated application suite with the ability to support the trading, risk management, and processing of various financial products such as Interest Rate, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Commodity and Equity and their derivatives.
With strategically based offices in global financial centers in San Francisco (headquarters), New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Moscow, Johannesburg, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Mumbai and Chennai, our 500+ employees include some of the best talent from the capital markets and technology industries. Our global presence offers international exposure, experience and travel for many of our employment positions.
Calypso Technology's clients are industry innovators and leaders — from 8 of the world’s top 10 banks to regional and local banks, and the world’s largest asset managers, leading hedge funds, and insurance companies. With over 110+ customers and 18,000+ users around the world, we are extremely proud of the relationships we have developed. A partial list of our clients can be found here: www.calypso.com/customers/.
With a world-class team of professionals who share a passion to succeed, Calypso places a high value on providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a diverse workforce.
We invite you to explore the Calypso website and discover how our organization can help you to navigate your journey in finding a rewarding career and achieving your own personal and professional goals.
Job Description Overview
We are seeking a QA Engineer for the Risk Management Development team. This is a tremendous opportunity to work with a talented and experienced team and requires someone with the strong motivation and desire to work in a challenging environment.
A thorough understanding of the release and software development lifecycle is essential. Knowledge of capital market products in interest rate, credit, foreign exchange or equity is desirable as is experience of testing numbers, reconciling to spreadsheets and investigating and explaining differences.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintenance of existing automated test solutions.
- Design development of automated test solutions.
- Analysis of automated test results and failures.
- Environment management. Creation, upgrade and maintenance of test environments, creation and maintenance of test data.
- Document software defects unambiguously and track these defects through the test lifecycle to resolution
Skills
- SQL, UML, Javascript, HTML, XML, Java, DOS/Unix Shell Scripting, VBScript, PLSQL
- Oracle Sybase databases
- Knowledge experience of testing methodologies and the software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with Spring, Hibernate, Ant, CruiseControl, CVS, Subversion
Software familiarity
- QTP, Fitnesse, VMWare, Eclipse
Benefits
Calypso offers career development opportunities, a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits package.
Calypso Technology is an equal opportunity employee (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.