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QA Engineer

NEW YORK-10006, NY, US
09/10/2018

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Required Skills

Shell Scripting

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

3 to 5 Year(s)

Job Description

QA Engineer

Financial Services Client

Full Time

Downtown NYC

The successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment, while demonstrating strong problem-solving, extensive technical skills, decision-making abilities and the highest level of professionalism.

The candidate is also expected to have a strong programming etiquette and excellent business knowledge/experience.

Duties and Responsibilities

Work with cross-functional teams to build test scenarios during requirements and coding phases

The candidate needs to be able to understand software internals & debug problems using log files

Work with databases to run queries or make updates to database data or schema

Write automated tests using Java, Python, Java Script and/or user-level automated tools to help ensure the delivery of quality trading system applications

Develop solutions to do functional, technical, failover and performance testing across the entire stack – application, database, hardware, firmware, OS and network

Perform analysis of data from QA and production to build testing tools and test scenarios.

Take the initiative to improve efficiencies across systems/projects

Support operations, including executing process validations, methodology and audits

Maintain testing and analysis tools; identify any negative changes to both QA and production environments and work with cross-functional teams to resolve those concerns

Knowledge and Experience

The Quality Engineer (QE) applicant is expected to have the following skills and experience on appointment:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

5+ years of relevant QE experience involving application development, deployment and testing

3+ years of hands-on experience on RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL or MSSQL) & Linux (Red Hat preferred)

Familiarity with job schedulers (such as Tidal), to create or execute defined jobs

Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with focus on delivering high quality products

Excellent verbal, written communication and customer support skills

Intermediate programming/scripting knowledge in Java, Python, Perl, Java Script or Shell Scripting

Experience with automation processes and testing tools

Ability to work in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment

Ability to multitask and work independently on multiple projects

Ability to differentiate between a critical business impacting incident and a minor problem, and resolve/escalate accordingly

Good understanding of all stages of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with trading and financial applications is a plus

Knowledge of the FIX protocol, including order flows

Familiarity with Surveillance retro-runs, to process prior production data and produce surveillance output

Experience with supporting production changes, UAT testing and debugging prod issues

Knowledge and experience working with trading platforms and surveillance systems is a plus

Ability to work with vague or incomplete requirements, and help improve requirements quality

Candidates with development experience and basic networking knowledge