Senior Functional QA engineer (with Banking exp.)

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join their team. This role involves creating and executing test plans, ensuring product quality, and collaborating with development teams for process improvements. Candidates should have extensive experience in software testing and a solid understanding of financial instruments, making them essential to the project's success.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years experience in software testing.
• Experience in financial industry.
• Effective communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute product test plans.
• Track defects from detection to resolution.
• Review software documentation for completeness.

Skills

Software Testing

Financial Knowledge

Test Plan Execution

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Agile Methodology

Analytical Skills

Tools

JMeter

Postman

Selenium

Jenkins

Job description

Project description

You will be part of the FRTB/SA-CCR regulations project.Reporting to the Senior QA Manager, the Senior QA engineer creates and executes product test plans to ensure software products meet design specifications and product quality standards. Assists Development team with process improvements to improve product quality

Responsibilities

• Create test cases from product specifications.
• Executes test plans and test cases and compiles results.
• Sets up and maintains personal testing environments. May set up team testing environments.
• Assist in the review of software development processes to improve product quality.
• Tracks defects from detection to resolution and works with developers to reproduce and resolve defects.
• Communicates with stakeholders on product issues.
• Acquires and maintains knowledge of existing products, operations or systems.
• Reviews product documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Provides support to stakeholders prior to GA release of software.
• Create and/or run SQL scripts to populate data and validate test results.
• Provide testing effort estimates for enhancements.

SKILLS

Must have

• At least 6 years experience in software testing or related field.
• Experience in the software and financial industry
• Basic financial knowledge: financial instruments, pricing methods, risk analysis
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; effective customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques including the software development lifecycle.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, with an attention to detail.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to think 'out of the box' for process improvements.
• Ability to work with specialized software tools; effectively implement and evaluate new processes or plans.
• Ability to execute test plans and test scripts for commercial software applications, document expected results vs. actual results, and record software defects.
• Preferred knowledge of the Agile software development methodology.
• Experience in creating functional, non-functional, manual and regression test scripts and review them with the business and technical solution owner(s).
• Experience with one or more testing tools like JMeter, Postman, Selenium or any open source tools including Robot framework
• Basic Jenkins pipeline usage

Nice to have

N/A