QA

Pay Rate: $65-$70.00

Bill Rate: $105

Project:

This person will be working on multiple projects. Mostly operations projects (606 migration from one platform to another). Then Bloomberg to Mocha allocation process moving over.

Next year will be a lot of Regulatory and Operations projects.

Role:

Someone who has worked with Fixed Income, Allocation Processes. Need to understand what comes out of BPS and Impact.

Knowledge of Repo Transactions or Collateral Management would be helpful also.

Want someone who understands how the systems work and who can Test these systems.

Really need the Middle Office experience.

Doing validation on the back end and then produce the documentation.

Will be working with some key stakeholders also.

It's really more of a QA Coordinator than a QA Engineer. Not quite as hands on.

Need to understand the testing process. A lot of the testing is going to be system connectivity.

Description:

Regulatory Operations Quality Assurance Engineer position is within Client Securities, TEC-Corporate Technology.

Act as Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for testing of projects for the Operations (Regulatory Operations) department. The Operations department services to Client Branches and relevant Front offices to deliver best in class client experience & business growth in a controlled environment. Operations is responsible for markets Settlement, Payment & Cash Clearing/Funding, post-settlement activities, Reconciliations Control and Regulatory Reporting

We are looking for a dedicated QA-minded professional, who likes to provide practical solutions. Our QA team focuses on testing all software products regardless of their platform. This role will report into a QA Lead in Technology and will be accountable for the core responsibilities identified. This role will require the leadership and coordination of various resources and the delivery of new processes, procedures, technology, coordinating and conducting validation before product/project launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs.

Responsibilities:

This position will be responsible for testing front end and back end of the applications supporting Markets business. It is hands on position, you will be required to provide test strategy, test estimation, write and execute test cases, build test automation where it is applicable. Additional responsibilities include work closely with the stakeholders, project manager, business analysts and the application developers, utilize functional documentation and technical specifications to facilitate the creation and execution of manual and automated test scripts, perform data analysis and creation of test data, track and help resolve defects. Ensure that all testing is conducted and documented in adherence with Client standards.

Qualifications and Skills:

Experience working with various Broker/Dealer products securities processing including Equities, Bonds, Treasuries, ABS, MBS, Securitized Products, Repos/Reverse Repo, Stock Borrow/Loan.

Experience with Industry wide initiatives within a global bank supporting Regulatory.

6 to 8+ years of experience working in a role spanning from Front office to Back office including finance and Risk.

Prior experience in delivering Operations related projects, familiarity with processes and controls.

Experience with middle office systems and Regulatory reporting.

Experience working with Bloomberg and other fixed income booking systems (Preferred).

Streamline interface to the business to end to end operational processes supporting the securities and derivatives product.

QA coordinator with proven track record of stakeholder engagement and management.

Strong understanding of QA methodologies and SDLC (Agile and Waterfall).

Hands on experience in Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Execution and Defect Management.

Hands on experience in creating and executing test scenarios, test cases, functional testing, regression testing, data driven testing and meeting their SLAs.

Able to independently review and analyze business requirements; evaluate data sources, business rules etc.

Strong understanding of SQL concepts – must have experience in Oracle, SQL Server databases.

Experience with Datawarehouse, Data lake MS Azure (Preferred).

Experience with testing tools such as XRAY, Test Rail, TestNG etc

"Go-getter” attitude.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field (preferred).