QA Engineer

Nexiva Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Nexiva Inc. in New York, NY is seeking a Traditional QA Engineer for a long-term contract. Hybrid work arrangement requires 3 days on-site weekly, with emphasis on cloud testing, data verification, and financial domain expertise.

The role focuses on regression, functional, integration, negative/ad-hoc testing, and UAT support across trading, reconciliation, and reporting systems. Prior investment banking or financial services experience is required.

Qualifications

• Manual Regression Testing: Verifying new deployments do not break financial reporting or trading logic.
• Functional & Integration Testing: Validate end-to-end flows across front, middle, back-office systems.
• Negative & Ad-hoc Testing: Test resilience with invalid data and unexpected actions.
• UAT Support: Guide and verify UAT with developers, analysts and end-users.

Responsibilities

• Manual Regression Testing: Verifying that new code deployments or updates do not break existing financial reporting, reconciliation tools, or trading logic.
• Functional & Integration Testing: Validating the end-to-end flow of transactions, trade lifecycles, and data processing between systems.
• Negative & Ad-hoc Testing: Intentionally inputting invalid data or unexpected user actions to test resilience.
• UAT Support: Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and end-users to manage UAT guidelines and verify real-world operations.

Skills

SQL queries

Regression testing

Functional testing

UAT coordination

Data testing

Education

Bachelor's degree (US)

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Job description

Position : QA Engineer

Location : New York, NY Hybrid (3 days a week onsite work)

Duration : Long Term Contract

MOI : Video + In person interview

Financial service domain

looking for a Traditional QA Engineer.

*Must have a one degree from US - Bachelors from an accredited college in the US

*Need a strong QA person with a focus on cloud testing / data. stressing Data Recon and increasing the Recon features for the testing. *

*Investment Banking OR Financial Service experience required

Core Focus Areas:

• Manual Regression Testing: Verifying that new code deployments or updates do not break existing financial reporting, reconciliation tools, or trading logic.
• Functional & Integration Testing: Validating the end-to-end flow of transactions, trade lifecycles, and data processing between front, middle, and back-office systems.
• Negative & Ad-hoc Testing: Intentionally inputting invalid data or unexpected user actions to test application resilience and error-handling capabilities.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support: Serving as a "quality catalyst" by collaborating directly with developers, business analysts, and end-users to manage UAT guidelines and verify real-world operational

Technical and Domain Competencies

Traditional QA teams handle highly complex enterprise systems and generally require a specific mix of financial and technical skills:

• Database & Data Integrity: High proficiency in writing complex SQL queries to manage and validate financial data stores. Traditional and Cloud Databases.
• System Environments: Navigating backend servers using Unix/Linux commands and scripting.
• Domain Knowledge: Understanding specific financial structures such as Securities Lending, Equity Swaps, FIX protocols, and T+1 clearance mandates.
• Tool Tracking: Rigorous defect logging, sprint tracking, and requirement mapping utilizing platforms like Jira and Bitbucket