Senior Associate, Quality Assurance (Hybrid)

Broadridge; Eastern Ontario; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Associate in Quality Assurance to enhance their automation and performance testing capabilities. In this pivotal role, you'll be responsible for creating and executing test plans and scripts, ensuring that products meet the highest quality standards. You'll collaborate with development teams and leverage your expertise in tools like Selenium and JMeter to drive efficiency and effectiveness in testing processes. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a culture of empowerment and innovation while advancing your career in a dynamic environment focused on trading and wealth management solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in automation and performance testing.
• Strong knowledge of Selenium, JMeter, and SQL for testing applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automation and performance test scripts for various applications.
• Analyze requirements to create effective test strategies and plans.

Skills

Automation Testing

Performance Testing

Selenium

Java

VB Scripting

Python

SQL Queries

Test Plan Development

API Automation

Wealth Management Knowledge

Education

University degree or college diploma in a related field

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

Excel Macros

Job description

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

The Senior Associate, Quality Assurance is primarily responsible for performing automation and performance testing for a suite of products. The role will focus on understanding testing requirements, test case creation, test execution, and reporting test results for all partners for assigned projects. They will be an individual contributor responsible for the preparation of automation/performance test plans and test scripts using Selenium, JMeter, Java, and VB scripting for host (mainframe) and distributed (web) applications.

Key Job Functions/Responsibilities

Analysis

• Use business requirements documents to analyze changes or modified code to create automation test strategies and test plans for various applications related to trading and wealth management, which include securities knowledge, order processing, trade processing, mutual fund orders, managing various types of client and account profiles.
• Work closely with the test manager and application test leads to identify areas of automation and develop scripts to leverage across various test releases.
• Review existing test plans and scripts to determine where re-usable and/or improvements can be made.
• Develop automation utilities to support test data generation needs.

Planning/Scripting

• Create test plans and scripts for new and changed functionality as per department policies and manual testing procedures for functional positive/negative testing, regression, end-to-end/integration, and performance testing.
• Ensure test data sets are created for QA testing.
• Ensure all manual QA documentation and QC manual test plan are maintained and kept up to date for SME applications.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives to ensure consistent testing methodologies.

Testing

• Perform functional (positive/negative), regression, end-to-end/integration testing for new and changed functionality to ensure that requirements have been met and that system behavior is as expected.
• Develop and execute performance test scripts for host and web applications using tools like JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Identify points of failure by tracing them to the original source code, where applicable.
• Liaise with the development teams and business team on testing discrepancies identified.

Reporting

• Document, communicate, track, and manage test automation/performance development and execution results.
• Record testing discrepancies in the defect tracking system, including the necessary information to identify or recreate them.
• Report monthly progress on automation and performance to various stakeholders.

Basic Skill Level Requirements

Education:

• University degree or college diploma in a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in developing automation and performance scripts.
• Hands-on Senior Automation tester with experience in Selenium, Java, Excel Macros, VB scripting, and Python.
• Good understanding of the Software Testing Life Cycle with testing experience in mainframe and web applications.
• Experience in developing complex SQL queries to query DB2 and SQL tables.
• Should have experience in using tools to define and develop performance test plans and test scripts.
• Experience in development and maintenance of automation frameworks.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and execute to support upcoming releases.
• Performance testing knowledge and experience in developing and executing performance test scripts for host and distributed applications using JMeter.
• Ability to develop performance test plans and develop performance test scripts.
• Working experience with automation of APIs (SOAP/REST) using automation tools.
• Wealth management/capital markets domain knowledge and testing experience is preferred.
• Experience in securities, mutual funds, bonds, order and trade processing, client and account profile handling is a plus.