Quality Assurance Analyst (6 month FTC) recruitment

Offering a world of knowledge and experience behind every opinion, we transform information to deliver meaning and utility to investors, issuers and other market participants. Fitch Ratings’ global expertise draws on local market knowledge and spans across the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.

Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, focuses on the development of fixed-income products and services bringing to market a wide range of data, analytical tools and related services, and is the distribution channel for Fitch Ratings content. Fitch Solutions products and services provide market participants with greater insight into the growing complexity of the credit markets to enable more timely and informed business decisions.

Fitch Solutions is seeking an entry level Quality Assurance Analyst on a contractual basis, to perform the following QA activities for our datafeed products: verification of the migration of financial data into new database models; test plan creation; author and execute test cases for functional, regression, and QA testing; defect tracking and escalation of project issues.

Responsibilities:

• Follow SDLC process using Agile methodology
• Meet with business, project managers and development teams to determine project-specific QA needs
• Documentation of current datafeed behavior
• Documentation of business rules, active/inactive content sets, and file relationships
• Develop test strategy, test plans and identification and exectution of test cases
• Perform small-scale functional, regression, and user acceptance testing of datafeed files to confirm product behavior and content is correct and has been been properly migrated
• Conduct overall end-to-end process testing
• Log and track defects discovered during testing via a defect tracking application
• Report progress on problem resolution to management
• Work in conjunction with Data Quality team to design bulk testing of our large-scale financial databases
• Sign-off on readiness for staged deployments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in computer science/related testing field
• Experience of working in the Quality Assurance field
• Experience with financial services and/or financial data required
• Experience with coordination of activities with Business and Development teams
• Must be highly detail-orientated and possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must possess good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Access)
• Experience in working with databases a must
• Familiarity with datafeed products a plus
• Experience with Agile development processes and Automation Tools are a plus
• Knowledge of Oracle SQL and OBIEE a plus

Fitch is an equal opportunity employer that employs people across the full spectrum of society. Fitch works hard to create a workplace with an emphasis on inclusion, innovation and merit. By valuing diversity and equality in our workplace, we believe it adds strength to our business.