Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring for a Quality Assurance Analyst on a long term contract basis.
Work Location:
Menlo Park, CA
Summary:
The Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for project-team testing requirements, support and direction with business systems analysis, automated test development and maintenance in both a legacy multi-value platform and an object/service-oriented architecture implemented on the Java platform.
The Right Candidate
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are ready to learn and grow. As a test automation Engineer, you will play a critical role in design and development of software applications used by clients, customer and support personnel. This role requires strong software engineering, manual and automation test skills, and good problem-solving skills.
Required Skills:
-Analyzes complex functional requirements, performs research on current processes, designs test strategy and documents, and interacts with the business to develop test plans and test scripts
-Plans required test data fixtures and prioritizes test scripts to ensure the most critical components of the applications are being tested
-Leads the development of a comprehensive test strategy and works in partnership with a cross-functional team to define and complete testing deliverables
-Presents identified project defects, risk analysis, and potential improvements to project team participants for review
-Reviews and validates system data and product quality to ensure system integrity and data fixtures
-Assists in the creation and maintenance of the UI and API automated testing scripts and conducts automated testing on the most critical client-facing applications as needed
-Reviews tests with others to ensure that the tests conform to industry standards and the company's existing systems architecture, design techniques, and development standards
-Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual functional, integration, and regression tests and assures that tests are successfully completed prior to production
-Documents all test designs and scripts, functional, and regression tests and production releases.
-Participates in product demonstrations and IT and QA process improvement recommendations and trains other analysts as needed
-Mentor other department members and IT Staff members
-Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance, and other environments
Minimum Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of experience in quality assurance is required on the following applications:
-Must be able to write test scripts from user requirements, execute the scripts and communicate results to team participants.
– Working experience with TITAN, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Protractor
-Must be able to evaluate and document business case for enterprise improvement initiatives
-Must be able to design basic Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
-Demonstrate extensive knowledge of quality methodology and testing practices, tools and metrics
-Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently
-Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
-Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
-Must have logical aptitude to understand interactions/workings of systems
-Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members
-Must be able to follow a project schedule and juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines
-Above-average knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL)
Preferred Experience and Skills
-Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services
-Working in Unix/Linux development environment
-Agile/Scrum methodologies
-Good to have skills
-Trading domain business knowledge is a plus
-Hands on experience testing Mobile applications using Sauce Labs cloud is a strong plus