Quality Assurance Engineer

Signature IT World Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Signature IT World Inc. is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer focused on Investment, Trading, and CRD workflows. You will validate end-to-end trading systems within an Agile team, working with developers, analysts, and product owners to ensure clear results and actionable recommendations.

The role emphasizes testing complex data-rich workflows, collaborating with traders and portfolio specialists, and contributing to automated testing initiatives using Selenium and related tools.

Qualifications

• Experience with financial software testing is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of industry standard best practices as related to software testing.
• Experience in software application design, development and testing process.
• Ability to translate from business requirements to technical testing solutions.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyze complex data from varying sources.
• Good communication skills with ability to work with other members in a scrum team.
• Strong partnership and relationship building skills.
• Experience with SQL.
• Good experience in Agile scrum framework.
• Experience with the JIRA platform for SDLC.
• Hands-on automation experience with Selenium, Test Complete, etc.
• Experience with micro service testing and automation.
• Experience with UI Automation.
• Familiarity with Java and Python

Responsibilities

• Create comprehensive test plans with well-defined, reusable test cases from acceptance criteria defined in scrum stories.
• Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing etc.
• Perform peer reviews of testing artifacts and demonstrate to the technology team and business participants their test results, evidence, and related analysis.
• Work with developers, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand the requirements surrounding new or enhanced features to write test plan documents, test cases that adhere to MFS standards.
• Assist with the development, integration, and coordination of cross-organization test projects.
• Generate effective status and progress reports to the QA Manager and project team managers.

Skills

Financial software testing

Testing best practices

Requirements translation to tests

Data analysis

Scrum/Agile collaboration

Communication in a Scrum team

Stakeholder relationship

Testing in SDLC with JIRA

Tools

JIRA

Charles River IMS

SQL

Selenium

Test Complete

UI Automation

Java

Python

Job description

The Quality Assurance Engineer (Investment / Trading and CRD) is a member of the Global information Technology team responsible for validating end-to-end trading systems workflows. Working in an Agile environment with developers and business analysts, and product owners and business partners such as portfolio specialists, and traders, this individual will be required to analyze and test complex end to end trading systems workflows, and communicate to the team clear results, issues, and at times recommendations visualization techniques.

Required Skills

• Experience with financial software testing is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of industry standard best practices as related to software testing.
• Experience in software application design, development and testing process.
• Ability to translate from business requirements to technical testing solutions.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources.
• Good communication skills with ability to work with other members in a scrum team
• Strong partnership and relationship building skills.
• Experience with Charles River Investment Management system is preferred.
• Experience with SQL.
• Good experience in Agile scrum framework.
• Experience with the JIRA platform for SDLC

Additional (for automation)

• Hands-on experience with automation tool like Selenium, Test Complete etc.
• Experience with micro service testing and automation.
• Experience with UI Automation.
• Familiarity with Java and Python

Job Responsibilities

• Create comprehensive test plans with well-defined, reusable test cases from acceptance criteria defined in scrum stories.
• Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing etc.
• Perform peer reviews of testing artifacts and demonstrate to the technology team and business participants their test results, evidence, and related analysis.
• Work with developers, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand the requirements surrounding new or enhanced features to write test plan documents, test cases that adhere to MFS standards.
• Assist with the development, integration, and coordination of cross-organization test projects.
• Generate effective status and progress reports to the QA Manager and project team managers.