Senior QA Engineer - Automation New York, NY

Senior QA Engineer - Automation

 

 

Job ID: Job-2402

Job Title:      Senior QA Engineer - Automation

location:       New York, NY

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $100K - $125K

Primary Skills:

Description:   

Leading financial services firm in lower Manhattan is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer focused on designing test cases and executing test cases through automation.

 

You will be responsible for testing fixed income pricing applications. You 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 company applications.

 

You will be required to review functional requirements to assess their impact on the software applications and formulate tests cases from them. You should be well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools.

 

You must understand test automation tools, techniques and best practices and be capable of working with a test automation team. You will be responsible for maintaining test plans and manual test cases.

 

Required experience & skills:

 

-Experience in Web Test Automation using Selenium Webdriver.

 

-Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby.

 

-Hands-on experience with MySQL and Oracle (other mainstream RDBMS's are a plus).

 

-Hands-on experience with UNIX system and comfortable writing Unix shell scripts.

 

-Hands-on experience with code version systems like SVN, Git.

 

-Experience automating Performance tests.

 

-Experience in the Financial Industry is a must (experience with Fixed Income products is preferred).

 

-Experience with mainstream defect tracking tools.

 

-5+ years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and writing automation scripts.

 

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

 

-Strong written and verbal communication skills.

 

-Experience with Continuous Integration and tools like Rundec, Hudson, TeamCity or Jenkins would be a plus.

 

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