QA Developer

Trading Central; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech firm in Ottawa is seeking a QA Engineer to join their Operations & QA Team. This role involves designing and executing automated and manual tests in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on functional sprint testing and collaboration within agile teams. Ideal candidates are self-starters with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, experience in test automation, and strong analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of related professional experience.
• Experience with automation is required.
• Knowledge in relational databases and web technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated and manual functional tests.
• Identify, report on, and validate software defects.
• Provide technical input to performance analysis.

Skills

Test automation programming

Analytical skills

Creative thinking

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

LINUX

Javascript

HTML

CSS

Job description

Operations & Quality Assurance Team

Who are we?

If you know someone who runs their own stock portfolio, then there's a good chance that they use our insightful investing analysis to help make their decisions! We have been successfully supporting investment decisions through innovation since 1999. Our fintech award-winning products, trusted by 300 of the world's leading brands and 100 million end users, combine Patented Software, Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise.

With offices in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus, Sydney and Ottawa, we are truly a global team with an entrepreneurial startup company culture. Here at Trading Central, you get the opportunity to become familiar with the entire team and to see your projects through from concept to completion. We’re proud to create a friendly, social and intellectually challenging environment focused on building collaborative teams and personal career growth. We build personalized career paths for each employee and give you the tools, education, and opportunities to succeed.

Our work environment is fast paced and team oriented, encouraging creative problem solving, customer focus and a passion to advance your craft. We connect across our global offices every day to deliver on our mission to empower today’s investors with actionable, insightful analytics. This journey is filled with learning opportunities and challenges, which are balanced with an international friendly atmosphere and work-life balance. If you are an ambitious self-starter hungry to make a difference in today’s financial markets, you will likely be a good fit at Trading Central.

Who are you?

You are a forward thinker and want to acquire knowledge in various web and server technologies as well as gain an edge in understanding the online investment tools. You are proficient both in verbal and written communication (English) and you have an ability to define and resolve complex technical problems in heterogeneous information systems environments.

Main requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree
• Minimum of 2 years of related professional experience
• Object oriented design and development is a plus
• Test automation programming experience is required
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• LINUX environment is considered an asset
• Knowledge in web technologies (Javascript, JSON, HTML, XSLT, XML, AJAX, CSS) is considered an asset
• Capable of thinking "out of the box" or being stretched with respect to creative expression.
• You have well-developed analytical skills

What will we do together?

By joining our Operations & QA Team, you will be responsible for functional sprint testing, helping with designing and developing automation test cases and performing other testing activities in a fast-paced, agile, team-oriented environment.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Work as a project team member during end-to-end system life cycle development of major projects.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated and manual functional tests for end-to-end scalable software projects.
• Identify, report on, and validate software defects in our tracking tool.
• Develop greater expertise in industry-leading information management technologies.
• Participate and contribute to team and client meetings.
• Provide technical input to performance analysis and report on application readiness.

Ready to apply?

We invite you to submit your resume.

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Trading Central is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience.