QA Team Lead – Contract recruitment
This is an opportunity to be a part of a total Testing Quality Assurance approach to enterprise application testing here at Morgan Stanley. This QA team identifies, designs, implements, and executes testing methodologies and toolsets for the Finance area of Morgan Stanley. The QA Team lead will be responsible for the overall testing relationship with a client including analysis, design and execution of test cases. This particular position is to work in an exciting initiative called Wise, which is one of the firms largest data warehouses and enables controllers to perform all aspects of financial reporting across all asset classes and business lines.
The QA team lead will participate in the BU analysis and IT design development phases, gaining a level of familiarity with the business requirements and technical design unusual in the Testing/QA world. As a result, the team will design and execute tests, which effectively test very complex business functionality. Some of the specific responsibilities will include:
- Design build test harnesses,
- Design execute frontend backend test cases,
- Implement QA process and testing automation projects to improve the overall testing cycle,
- Participate in the development and support of the testing program aimed at supporting multiple testing efforts simultaneously,
- Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge into the team,
- Assist with test strategy articulation, planning, and management of individual testing events,
- Utilize appropriate testing tools,
- Identify testable events and develop the test cases / test scripts,
- Identify and capture test data to support the test cases defined by the testing team,
- Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-useable test assets
- Act as one of the team representatives to IT and user groups within relevant test phases,
- Provide regular contributions to the test management reporting pack,
- Understand the business risk and implications of introducing new software or hardware into the production environment,
- Participate in overall process improvement for SDLC.
Skills Required:
- Diploma (BSc) preferably in IT or Business with strong IT background,
- QA / Testing experience in large cross platform testing programs preferably in backend testing,
- Experience testing UNIX/Linux , Windows OS environment applications,
- Testing/Working experience with financial industry and trading systems with products such as FX, Drives, Equity, OTC and Commodities,
- Database experience in SQL, Sybase/Oracle, DB2, Teradata,
- Frontend, ETL, Middle Tier and webservice Testing experience,
- Experience in writing test cases directly from business/IT requirements,
- Excellent verbal and written skills,
- Passion for testing and quality assurance,
- Desire to share information and move projects forward,
- Desire to learn some of the business functionality being developed in systems,
- Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills,
- Excellent oral and written communication skills,
- Strong client service orientation,
- Data analysis skills.
Skills Desired:
- Experience using Mercury Products like Quality Center, and/or Test Director,
- UNIX shell scripting and/or Perl programming,
- Experience building back-end automated test harnesses,
- Experience in Message-based testing using XML family including XML,XPATH,XSLT and SOAP,
- Knowledge of HTML web applications,
- Knowledge of MQ Series,
- Knowledge of products traded by Investment Banks,
- Experience working with offshore teams,
- Team leadership experience,
- Strong team and task management skills,
- Experience Testing Mainframe, C#, .NET, Informatica/ETL applications,
- Experience using Quick Test Pro.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fair treatment, regardless of background (including criminal record).