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 collaborate with the ICE Clearing Risk Technology group and Clearing House Risk teams to implement risk management initiatives from a technological standpoint. This role involves planning and executing technology platform releases, creating and executing test plans, and maintaining QA artifacts. You will lead and manage QA team members while ensuring quality delivery of the Clearing House Risk Platform through effective communication with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work with technology team to build Clearing House Risk Platform systems running in on-premise cloud infrastructure.
• Act as the primary contact for Risk QA for key stakeholders from Clearing House business, technology, and operations teams.
• 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 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 architecture.
• Deploy application builds and maintain test environments.
• Troubleshoot software/hardware configuration problems.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and work with relevant teams to execute on ideas.

Requirements

• Understanding of financial markets and clearing house risk management concepts (portfolio risk management, margin calculations, options pricing, historical simulation, etc.).
• Ability to independently write complex SQL queries involving data searches and mathematical calculations over large datasets (preferably 5+ years' experience).
• 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.
• 2+ years' experience scripting using Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Expert knowledge of QA processes, tools for test case management, test automation, test techniques and strategies, and QA methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with commodity markets, financial trading environment, or equity brokerage business and exposure to futures markets (preferably 5+ years).
• Experience participating in all aspects of a full-lifecycle development methodology and related quality concepts and processes.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills.

Benefits

• Work from home flexibility of 1 day per week.