Senior QA Analyst with Financial Exp. (Direct Client)

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• BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Economics or related major.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in a Quality Assurance position in support of financial trading and/or 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
• Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
• 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, 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 (Framework concepts, Unified Functional Test, Test Complete, Selenium, etc.) to effectively contribute to planning out automated testing strategies
• Experience with relational database technology, SQL queries and SQL programming
• Knowledge of equities trading concepts, industry practices and workflows are vital, especially in the areas of portfolio optimization, as well as equity and mutual fund trading
• Keen understanding of SDLC and STLC in both a traditional waterfall or an agile software development setting

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a requirement for this role
• Detail oriented, self-starter and a team player
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience writing, managing, and executing end to end test plans and test cases
• Ability to influence and persuade team members when needed
• Experience leading and working with offshore teams
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), JIRA or similar tools for managing regression testing and defect tracking
• Ability to manage multiple, competing tasks to meet deadlines in a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with order management and trading applications in the equity brokerage or asset management space
• Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
• Prior supervisory responsibility over a small team is preferred