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Senior QA Analyst - Remote

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Location

Bucharest, Romania
Industry

Information Technology

Job Description

Role Summary:

Working as part of the Core Trading team, you will be responsible for overseeing the testing of a range of key projects within trading and risk management. Workstreams will include both business initiatives and technology modernization requirements. The emphasis is very much on automation rather than manual testing as it will involve the management of complex problems often based on real-time data feeds. You will also be working on strategic initiatives to modernize our existing technology stack based on a distributed scalable microservice-based architecture. You will be expected to make an active contribution to this process and be prepared to offer ideas and solve problems at every stage of each project. The projects you will be working on are mainly server-side but with some scope for front-end testing when required.

Key Responsibilities:

Liaise with the business/developers/BAs at the concept stage to determine testing strategy and coverage
Actively participate in sprint planning sessions and ensure requirements are clear and complete
Provide accurate estimation for sprint planning
Create test cases, BDD specifications, and data (manual and automated)
Ensure that adequate test coverage is provided
Assess the impact and risks of new functionality introduced into the system and plan regression testing and/or highlight any potential issues
Participate in team stand-ups
Actively implement Test Automation where possible and ensure that it is up to a certain standard
Understand and Maintain the existing test automation suite where required
Execute test scripts and analyze and record results
Identify defects/ anomalies and investigate their cause. Document and track these defects.
Recommend improvements or corrections to developers or system analysts
Review log files and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements
Actively seek to gain and improve knowledge of systems and functionality
Train and Mentor new members of the QA team
Conduct Peer reviews of test artifacts from a coverage and correctness perspective
Transfer system and functional knowledge to team members and other QAs as required
Monitor multiple projects/software changes from concept to release and confirm correct behavior after release to live
Building Testing Efficiencies within the team
Understand and adhere to the GAIN Capital Change Request process
Understand and adhere to the GAIN Capital QA processes
Be responsible for all phases of testing across various test environments
Coordinate with Service Delivery teams to ensure the timely and correct release of software to live
Contribute to improving the QA process and quality standards across the organization
Evaluate testing tools and software that can be implemented to aid QA and maximize testing coverage
Actively participate in knowledge sharing and team-building exercises within the QA organization.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience Required:

Required:

Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle
Good knowledge of QA practices and processes
Experience in testing web and client-server applications
Experience working in an Agile environment and BDD
Experience in testing financial applications, especially Trading platforms and services and reporting solutions
Experience working in all phases of software testing right from requirements analysis up until QA/UAT sign off and release to live
Understanding of Programming fundamentals
Basic SQL skills including joins
Experience in test automation using a BDD tool
Experience in building, deploying, and releasing software by working with developers
Experience working with version control, build & deployment, and test management tools preferably Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Jira
Experience testing Webservices and Windows services.

Desired:

Business/Financial knowledge
Experience in debugging software
Experience in reviewing application code
Experience in building tools and utilities for automating testing tasks

Qualifications Required:

Required: A degree in Computer Science or related IT experience.