Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Quality Assurance function for GBX, the firm’s flagship front-office platform for trading Fixed Income, and Interest Rate and Credit derivatives
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources.
• Work with Development and Product teams to ensure high quality delivery of features.
• Lead and mentor QA team members.
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).

Skills Required:

• Minimum of 7 years QA/Testing experience, preferably within a global financial firm
• Minimum of 5 years actively working on financial systems
• Understanding of Trading Platforms and Trade processing.
• Test planning skills; requirements mapping, test design and troubleshooting are essential.
• Experience with defect reporting and tracking tools such as JIRA
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle
• Self-motivator
• Working knowledge of SQL

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Front office Trading Techniques
• Knowledge of UNIX/ Linux platforms
• Knowledge of performance testing techniques
• Experience in automating Java applications is a plus
• Experience with FIX protocol is a plus
• Experience in Java, XML, JSON and Web services is a plus

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required