Sr. QA Engineer recruitment

General Summary:       

The candidate will be responsible for testing proprietary fixed income pricing applications. 

Candidates must be capable of reviewing software applications objectively, work with Business Analysts and End-Users to understand requirements and Developers to understand the impact of changes to assist debugging and enhancing applications.

The candidate will be responsible in assisting to develop, maintain and grow a library of automated Selenium Webdriver tests. The candidate must be capable of transforming manual test cases into Selenium Webdriver tests using Java programming language.

The candidate will be required to review functional requirements to asses their impact on the software applications and formulate tests cases from them.

The candidate must be well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools and will rely on their extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. 

The candidate will be responsible for maintaining test plans and manual test cases. 

Candidates will be responsible for assisting in ongoing general maintenance, technical support and incremental software upgrades for QA tools including the HP Mercury Suite and Serena SBM. 

The candidate must be capable of presenting regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports.

Requirements:

• Experience in UI Test Automation, using Selenium Webdriver 2 framework + Java.

• Experience in Java design, coding, testing and debugging techniques.

• Knowledge of OOP principles and familiarity with OOP design patterns.

• Other programming languages is a big plus (shell, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Python preferred).

• Some working experience with TestNG/ JUnit, Maven, Ant, XML and configuration files is a plus.

• Knowledge of CI servers is a plus (Hudson, TeamCity, Jenkins).

• Experience working with RDBMSs including MySQL and Oracle is required.

• Strong SQL knowledge.

• Experience with UNIX is required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.

• Experience in the Financial Industry is required while experience with Fixed Income products preferred.

• Experience with HP Quality Centre is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tool is preferred.   

• Experience with using defect tracking tools is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tools is a preferred. 

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, an ability to multitask, and work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

• At least eight years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance.

List PREFERRED degree(s), license(s), and/or certification(s):

Mercury Certification for Quality Center or QuickTest Professional