Sr. QA Engineer - LONG TERM CONSULTANT - (US-CA-Pasadena)

Sr. QA Engineer - LONG TERM CONSULTANT - (US-CA-Pasadena)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: WJKJA111

Rate to $540 p/d corp to corp

§ Minimum of 5-8 years prior experience as a QA Engineer.
§ Excellent analytical skills for reviewing requirements, designing effective test strategies, and identifying defects
§ Strong problem solving skills
§ Experience working in a dynamic development environment, gathering and translating business requirements into meaningful test scenarios and cases
§ Extensive experience in manual testing
§ Experience using Quality Center 9.2 for development and execution of test cases and for defect tracking
§ Solid knowledge of QA best practices including: functional, regression, and integration testing
§ Strong SQL skills for backend oracle and Sybase validation
§ Experience in Unix/Linux environments with Weblogic or JBoss
§ Strong experience in documenting process flows and scenarios for functional testing
§ Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts

Specific Technical Knowledge and Experience

§ Prior QA work experience in the financial industry with fixed income, equities, swaps, futures & options is strongly preferred
§ Prior work experience in any Asset Management or Investment Banking firm
§ Basic understanding of Trade Life Cycle preferably from BUY side.
§ Basic understanding of Fixed Income and Derivatives trading
§ Prior work experience in any leading market standard order management tool such as Charles River/ Line Data/ Murex/Calypso etc.
§ Prior work experience in trading strategies
§ Basic understanding of Compliance rules and workflows in a trade life cycle is a plus
§ Basic understanding of Market standard Benchmarks/ Index is a plus
§ Basic understanding of FIX 4.2 or similar messaging techniques is a plus

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