QA Engineer

Responsibilities

- Creation of test plans and corresponding test cases to ensure thorough testing of business requirements in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Test case execution, defect documentation and tracking, and regression through all system tiers.
- Proactively communicating with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining to test creation or execution.
- Identify and effectively document a suite of test cases suitable for an automated regression test suite.
- Accurate and timely status reporting with Manager, including issues prohibiting progress when appropriate.

Qualifications

- 5+ years experience with the full spectrum of functional Quality Assurance testing and systems development life cycles a must.
- Experience with testing management utilizing HP's Quality Center including defect tracking, reporting and metrics highly desirable.
- Knowledge of the Financial Services industry would be ideal.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Skill with SQL as a data mining tool.
- Experience working with Unix.
- A leader with a collaborative work style.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fluid organization where priorities shift to respond to changing business needs.
- Knowledge of Oracle databases including:
- Verifying row counts
- Comparing values in rows/columns
- Creating queries containing sub queries
- Performing multi-table joins
- Updating database values to force test situations
- Inserting rows into the database
- Creating Views
- Ability to understand data models
- Informatica/ETL framework testing experience a plus
- Demonstrated UNIX capabilities, including the following:
- Navigating through the file system
- Verifying file timestamps
- Creating temporary directories
- Copying files
- Using the vi editor or utilities to view file contents
- Verifying line counts
- Knowledge of Autosys (other job management/scheduling tool).

ADDITIONAL SKILLS DESIRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED:

- Experience with functional test execution utilizing an Agile development methodology.
- Detailed knowledge of investing concepts and various investment vehicles.
- Experience working with an off-shore development and testing team.
- Experience with developing automated test cases.