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Job Description: We are looking for a quality engineer who is experienced in functional and automated testing of software systems in enterprise and cloud infrastructures, understands relational databases/SQL, and has familiarity with Agile development methodologies. The job involves the engineer to work as a member of a Front office Trading team and assist in executing the overall quality plan for components managed the scrum team. The engineer will also be expected to help testing any issues coming from implementation, support, and other development teams within Charles River. Responsibilities: Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, developers, business analysts and other project team members to assist in carrying out the quality responsibilities of the team Assist with the creation of comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews as part of the agile methodology Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery Work independently on smaller tasks with supervisory direction Preferred qualifications and education: B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred. 6+ years of progressively responsible professional software testing experience in enterprise and cloud native infrastructures. Financial Trading systems experience is a huge plus. 2+ years of automated testing experience, code repository and deployment tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Silk test, SVN, Gradle, Jenkins, etc in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event driven system. 3+ years of experience in iterative development environment using an iterative Agile-like methodology, with experience of delivering working software to production through the entire lifecycle Good knowledge of SQL, Relational databases. Knowledge of XML, VBScript, Powershell and Macros is an added advantage. Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose issues within quality assurance environments and communicate that knowledge to a varied audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience testing both client/server and web-based applications through one or more full life cycles of an application. Knowledge of financial securities and trading principles. Team oriented attitude. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
