Senior QA Engineer

StoneX Group Inc.; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office four days a week

Job summary

StoneX Group Inc. in Birmingham, AL is seeking a Senior Staff QA who will mentor and lead QA Analysts, design and implement tests, debug issues, and track quality metrics across projects.

You will coach junior testers, participate in requirement analysis, write and execute test cases, perform manual testing, and collaborate with the automation team to select candidates for automation. This is a four-day-in-office role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or equivalent work experience required.
• 5+ years in software quality assurance experience required.
• Experience with test planning, design, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and lead QA Analysts; act as SME for QA activities.
• Design and implement tests; perform root-cause analyses.
• Write and execute test cases; perform manual testing.
• Track defects; provide test status and metrics to project management.
• Collaborate with automation team to select test cases for automation.
• Provide estimates for the test effort and assist in test planning.
• Support development in debugging and retesting defects.

Skills

People management

Test design

Root cause analysis

Mentoring

Quality metrics

Agile teamwork

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

VSTS

SQL

PL/SQL

Sybase Interactive SQL

MS Azure

XML

IVR

Job description

Overview

Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity.

With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: Will be expected to mentor and lead QA Analysts. As Seniot Staff QA you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging issues, performing root-cause analyses, defining corrective actions, and tracking quality assurance metrics . You will be responsible for our more junior test engineers to follow-up and coach them.

Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Provide input to QA Manager on performance appraisals for all QA analysts.
• Act as a first point of contact for all QA activities. Become the Subject Matter Expert in the area assigned.
• Responsible for mentoring QA Analysts and ensuring best practices and procedures are being followed. Specific activities will include:
• Participates as a team member and/or leads a team executing the following tasks.
• Requirements analysis and decomposition
• Prioritization of test-related tasks
• Writing and executing of Test Cases
• Manual Test Execution
• Data Validation
• Defect Tracking; entry and reporting
• Test Status & Metrics Reporting
• Design and Document test plans for assign products
• Help define test environment (e.g., tools, simulators, etc…)
• Work with automation team to select test cases for automation and maintain a working Test Certification Test Suite
• Acts as advisor to QA Analysts to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
• Facilitate peer reviews for test plans, test cases, test execution and test metrics.
• Provide estimates and other inputs on the test effort to the Project Manager for test planning purposes
• Assist development in debugging and retesting reported defects as necessary
• During project testing periods on a daily basis provide and post project test metrics to the Project Manager as per the test methodology
• Work with the development team to perform root cause analysis of field reported defects
• Report defects in defect tracking system by providing detailed documentation as proof of test failures for repeatability.
• Recommends new SQA practices and policies to the team and management.
• Recognizes testing and product problems and recommends real world solutions.
• Compare testing metrics to exit criteria to provide SQA advice on product release.

Qualifications

Primary Duties will include

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or equivalent work experience required.
• 5 or more years in software quality assurance experience required.
• Required experience with

• Experience with people and resource management
  • Providing team with day to day direction
  • Communicating to QA Manager to provide data and metrics regarding project to management as required
• Testing Methods
  • Functional Testing
  • Black Box Testing
• Testing Types
  • System Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Compatibility Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing
• SDLC Models
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Preferred experience with
  • White Box Testing
  • Process Improvement
  • Performance Testing
  • Specialty Software:
  • VSTS
  • Other: XML, SQL, IVR
  • Experience with SQL, PL/SQL, database tools such as Sybase Interactive SQL a plus but not required
  • Experience with test automation and automation tools preferred but not required.
  • Experience with test management tools such as MS Azure preferred but not required.
  • Experience with defect management tools with some experience
  • Experience in an agile development and Use Case based testing a plus.

Working Environment

• 4 days per week in office