Quality Assurance Lead

Job Description

Job Description:

We are currently looking for a highly motivated hands-on Lead Quality Assurance Analyst with demonstrated experience in leading and proactively participating in the end to end system testing process within a fast paced trading environment. This person should be well-versed in leading automated testing efforts within the context of a continuous integration testing environment.

Major responsibilities include:
• Leading the QA team by organizing, scheduling and managing the team assignments across business projects, QA process and infrastructure improvements
• Reporting to and working with Trading Systems Development (TSD) Management in continually aligning the QA team with upcoming business goals
• Leading and participating in the execution of the testing process in compliance. Quality Assurance testing plan
• Proactively participating in the review process of the business requirements and system specifications for the purpose of test planning and test case generation
• Leading and participating in the generation and validation of test plans, test cases and traceability matrixes
• Tracking test case failures, remediation efforts and validating the results
• Managing the company proprietary automated testing environment to ensure its smooth operation

Organizational Structure:
• The Lead Quality Assurance Analyst will report to the Trading System Development management team.

Qualifications:
• Must have thorough knowledge of the Quality Assurance testing process and best practices
• Must have lead or managed a QA team and have the ability to split time between executing their own projects and leading the QA team
• Must have strong experience in managing an automated testing platform in a continuous integration testing environment. In-depth Jenkins knowledge a big plus
• Must have demonstrated accomplishments in testing real-time trading systems…direct experience testing Options or Equities Trading systems is a big plus
• Effective analytical and problem solving skills a must
• Strong experience using the LINUX command line interface
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Perl, etc.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills required
• Must be a self-motivated, dynamic, organized and responsible team player