RedStream Technology
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst Nashville, TN
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
-Contract Hybrid position (3 days on-site in Nashville office)
RedStream Technology is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to join a leading global investment firm.
In this role you will support testing in a dynamic, agile environment and develop a testing strategy, managing a testing team, supervising test automation, and ensuring quality delivery of projects. Successful candidates must be adept both at traditional QA best practices and agile methodology.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with software developers, project managers, business analysts, and business partners to understand and analyze business requirements for projects
- Break down business requirements into functional components to document test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality
- Develop plans for both automated and manual functional, integration, and regression tests and ensure that tests are successfully completed prior to production
- Lead Functional, Compatibility and Regression test execution across various environments
- Report and track defects and issues and communicate results to the project team and senior management
- Evaluate upstream/downstream/parallel components to identify and mitigate potential areas of risk
- Manage offshore QA team members to assist in test case development for new functionality and regression testing
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Economics, or related field
- 8+ years’ experience in a Quality Assurance position in support of financial trading and/or portfolio management applications in equity instruments
- Experience in structured testing methodology, with a proven ability to breakdown business requirements into functional components and develop written end to end test plans and cases
- Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
- Strong abilities in documenting test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and client interaction skills as they will be required to work closely with business analysts, a diverse group of users, IT senior management and application developers
- Familiarity with the concepts and application of automated test tool technologies (Framework concepts, Unified Functional Test, Test Complete, Selenium, etc.) to effectively contribute to planning out automated testing strategies
- Experience with relational database technology, SQL queries and SQL programming
- Keen understanding of SDLC and STLC in both a traditional waterfall, or agile software development setting
Must Have Skills
- Experience leading and working with offshore teams
- Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), JIRA or similar tools for managing regression testing and defect tracking
- Familiarity with order management and trading applications in the equity brokerage or asset management space
- Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
- Prior supervisory responsibility over a small team is preferred
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience with Agile project development with exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps and JIRA
- Experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks and integrating with DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in automated test scripting using tools like Selenium & Python, Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP), Selenium & JAVA and Rational Robot.
- Experience in testing API’s using Postman, Python or Swagger