QA Analyst- Onsite- AVP

$100,000 - $160,000/Yr

State Street Corporation - Irvine, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Irvine, CA

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

About the position

The QA Analyst position within the Reference Data team focuses on executing the overall quality plan for reference data applications in the financial services sector. The role requires a detail-oriented individual who can quickly understand existing logic and design effective solutions. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and expanding testing labs, conducting both automated and manual testing, and ensuring high-quality deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers, and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Agile team.
• Develop and execute manual and automated functional, integration, and regression tests.
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices and comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices.
• Interpret results of manual and automated tests and document software defects in the issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team's QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing.
• Add to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in 'testathon' activities as required by releases.
• Work with offshore team in proper creation of automated test scripts.
• Analyze business/functional requirements.
• Create functional specifications, test cases, and use cases, setup/fine-tune business processes.
• Perform data mapping, gap comparative/report analysis as needed.
• Collaborate with developers for coding/testing of functional requirements.
• Coordinate with business users for BUAT testing.
• Validate production deployment of applications.

Requirements

• Proven experience in software testing in a process-driven technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience programming with JAVA, SQL, and shell scripting languages.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs, and batch applications.
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications.
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans.
• Strong understanding of SDLC process and project methodologies (Waterfall/Agile).
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously across different teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to coordinate with team members and stakeholders in multiple locations.
• Aptitude for learning new things and flexibility to adapt and follow guidelines.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong knowledge in Capital Markets, preferably in Fixed Income securities and trade flow.
• Experience with reference data management.
• Sybase and/or SQL Server querying skills for analysis and production issue research.
• XML and UNIX experience.

Benefits

• Collaborative work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth
• Access to advanced technologies and best practices in the industry