Manager, Risk QA

Intercontinental Exchange - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Manager

Remote - Atlanta, GA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

As a Manager, Risk QA, you will work closely with the ICE Clearing Risk Technology group and the Clearing House Risk teams to execute Clearing House Risk Management initiatives from a technology perspective. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders, including System Analysts, QA Analysts, and Development Teams, to plan and execute releases for the Clearing Risk Technology Platform. You will be responsible for creating and executing test plans and test cases based on business and system requirements, ensuring that all QA artifacts are maintained according to current standards. Additionally, you will coordinate test execution, train users, and provide user support, taking ownership of specific systems and production releases from a QA perspective in a hands-on capacity. Your role will require you to be results-oriented and self-motivated, thriving in a fast-paced environment. Frequent interaction with project managers, developers, product managers, and risk management/quantitative analysts will be essential to deliver a quality Clearing House Risk Platform to users. Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand and test quantitative risk assessment and margin calculation models are crucial for success in this position. You will also lead and manage QA team members, providing guidance and support to ensure effective team performance.

Responsibilities

• Work with technology team to build cutting edge Clearing House Risk Platform systems running in on-premise cloud infrastructure
• Be the go-to person from Risk QA perspective for key stakeholders from Clearing House business, technology, and operations teams
• Demonstrate a strong technical skillset and strong understanding of quantitative finance and clearing house risk management concepts
• Review technical requirements with quantitative models terminology to produce test strategies, test scenarios, and test cases
• Create test plans, defining test scope, resources, dependencies, risks, and the overall strategy for testing complex software systems
• Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot test harnesses, including implementations for various quantitative models
• Perform all aspects of verification, including functional, regression, system, and integration testing for applications designed using multi-tiered-based architecture
• Deploy application builds and maintain test environments
• Perform troubleshooting of software / hardware configuration problems
• Demonstrate a passion for finding software bugs in complex algorithms
• Plan resource assignments, track and report progress of work, provide necessary guidance/training and feedback to team members
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, and work with relevant teams to define and execute on ideas to realize the opportunities

Requirements

• Understanding of financial markets/clearing house risk management concepts (portfolio risk management, margin calculations, options pricing, historical simulation, etc.) is required
• Ability to understand and implement reference models for functionality containing financial engineering formulas and create test plans from the same
• Ability to independently write complex SQL queries involving data searches and mathematical calculations over large datasets is a must. Prefer 5+ years' experience writing and executing SQL queries
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Mathematical Finance, Quantitative and Computational Finance, Information Systems or related discipline
• 7+ years of overall QA experience in roles of increasing responsibility
• Prefer 5+ years' experience with commodity markets, financial trading environment, or equity brokerage business and exposure to futures markets
• 2+ years' experience scripting using Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience participating in all aspects of a full-lifecycle development methodology, and related quality concepts and processes
• Expert knowledge of QA processes, tools for test case management, test automation, test techniques and strategies and QA methodologies
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast paced environment
• Experience and passion for building effective teams and coaching team members in a hands-on role
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with good organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work well within a team and collaborate effectively across teams

Benefits

• Work from home flexibility of 1 day per week