Quality Assurance Analyst

Description:

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

SUMMARY

As an Analyst, Quality Assurance, you will bring strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills to support the testing of core API backend team. Your understanding of vendor integrations, APIs, and quality testing will be critical to success in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Own the functional testing strategy of the application: analyze and estimate stories, write and execute test plans, evaluate and execute regression tests, and support production releases

Work closely with product, design, and development teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements

Own the sprint-level work assignments of the team to ensure coverage across new features

Identify, prioritize and automate appropriate test cases

Participate in the functional, integration and regression testing of the application, testing both manually and through automated test execution and analysis

Partner with development teams to discover, analyze, write, retest and close defects as they arise

Work with QAs from different teams to provide end to end testing coverage

Participate in all agile ceremonies as a member of the scrum team

QUALIFICATIONS:

Basic Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience

3+ years of experience?Demonstrated knowledge of OOP concepts, design patterns and test automation

Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, test planning, system dependencies, and product integration

Experience using software feature tracking and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Demonstrated experience in the Agile/Scrum software development life cycle

Capacity to learn quickly and share knowledge

Flexible and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with short sprint cycles

Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision

Preferred

Excellent programming, debugging and optimization skills in one or more general programming languages including Python, java, Javascript

Experience in designing and extending existing test frameworks for services

Experience with Jenkins, Git, Docker and BitBucket

Hands on experience testing API and Backend services

Experience testing application deployed in AWS, troubleshooting logs in Cloudwatch

Trading or FINTECH domain knowledge