Senior Quality Assurance Analyst recruitment

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This QA professional will be dedicated to providing QA services for applications designed and developed by the Equity Investment Management Technology team in support of the Portfolio Management business.

The QA services include breaking down business requirements into functional components, documenting test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality, and reporting on status to management. This person will also be asked to assist in developing test strategies and executing test plans/scripts, tracking defects issues, and evaluating upstream/downstream/parallel components to identify and mitigate potential areas of risk. Project schedules may necessitate concurrent activities for multiple projects and risk-based prioritization of activities. The successful candidate will be capable of quickly building subject matter expertise in those areas and applications where they may not be familiar.
 

This role will provide QA and testing support for products being developed and enhanced in support of our Portfolio Management business. The applications being tested support our business users by providing Portfolio Optimization and Trading functionality in Equities, Derivatives and Fixed Income instruments.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
•Breaking down business requirements into functional components
•Documenting test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality
•Reporting and tracking defects and issues and communicating results to the project team and senior management
•Evaluating upstream/downstream/parallel components to identify and mitigate potential areas of risk.

The person taking on this role will serve as a key member of the product team responsible for supporting the equity business user community.

This person will be asked to lead projects in a demanding and highly complex area of the firm. The role is both technically challenging and requires exposure to Portfolio Management and trading concepts. As this person’s technical and subject matter experience increase, they will be able to take on more responsibility for advancing the testing process and extending our test coverage and capabilities.

Job Qualifications

 •Minimum of five years experience in a Quality Assurance position in support of financial trading and portfolio management applications in equity instruments.
•The candidate must have experience in structured testing methodology, with a proven ability to breakdown business requirements into functional components.
•The candidate must also be strong in documenting test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality.
•The candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal and client interaction skills as they will be required to work closely with business analysts, a diverse group of users, IT Senior Management and application developers, in order to develop test strategies and to help define, organize and evolve the QA practice into a more structured discipline.
•Familiarity with the concepts and application of automated test tool technologies (e.g., HP WinRunner/Quick Test Professional, in order to effectively contribute to planning out automated testing strategies.
•Solid Microsoft Office suite skills, including Excel, Visio and MS Project.
•Experience with relational database technology (e.g., Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server) and SQL queries.
•Knowledge of equities trading concepts, industry practices and workflows are vital, especially in the areas of Portfolio Optimization, equity and mutual fund trading.

Skills:

•Familiarity with order management and trading applications in the equities brokerage or asset management space
•Experience with leading large-scale testing projects and supervising onshore and offshore testing staff.
•Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support.
•Experience working with the HP Quality Center test repository toolset for test management and defect tracking modules.
•Prior supervisory responsibility over a small team is preferred.
 

AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, individuals and private clients in major markets around the world. AllianceBernstein employs more than 500 investment professionals with expertise in growth equities, value equities, fixed income securities, blend strategies, and alternative investments, and, through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, operates in more than 20 countries. AllianceBernstein’s research disciplines include fundamental research, quantitative research, economic research and currency forecasting capabilities. Through its integrated global platform, AllianceBernstein is well-positioned to tailor investment solutions for its clients. AllianceBernstein also offers independent research, portfolio strategy and brokerage-related services to institutional investors.

IT Group Description

The Equity Investment Management Technology (EIMT) group is chartered with developing, extending and supporting the systems leveraged in support of AllianceBernstein’s Equity Portfolio Management, Trading, Research and Analytics products. While the primary instruments supported by these systems are equity-based, there are integrations with Currency, Fixed Income and Equity Derivative systems as well as interfaces to portfolio accounting and settlement systems in support of the full trade life cycle.
 

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