Charles Schwab - Ann Arbor, MI
posted 2 days ago
About the position
The thinkorswim Mobile team is looking for a talented QA Analyst/Engineer to join our team, to work on an industry-leading mobile trading platform. We work in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment, where QA have great opportunity to learn and perform validations on complex software tasks on systems, where high performance and resiliency are key. The primary responsibility of this position will be to ensure adequate testing of development code before releasing it to production. The QA Engineer will work with the Senior QA Engineer and QA Leads. The QA Engineer will report to the QA Manager and works directly under the guidance of QA Leads. The focus of the QA Engineer will be to ensure all changes to our applications are tested adequately. The QA Engineer will be responsible for ensuring test plans and test cases follow all standards and are appropriate on a project-by-project basis. The QA Engineer is responsible for using all test management tools according to standards. Over the time, QA Engineer is responsible for building technical expertise in our applications.
Responsibilities
- Create test plans and participate in Peer Reviews
- Modify test plans based on Peer Review feedback
- Provide input on risks so that Senior QA engineers, QA Leads, and in some cases QA Managers can be informed.
- Provide input to QA and Release Specialists to prepare implementation timelines
- Participate in development of Test Data Strategy
- Assist QA Leads in determining appropriate test environments
- Work with business analysts to ensure business requirements are adequate
- Highlight requirement and design gaps as early in lifecycle as possible
- Create test cases according to standards - manual and automated
- Perform problem solving and root cause analysis when defects occur
- Update Quality Center according to standard including mapping test cases to requirements
- Engage application development in defect resolution
- Flag test cases appropriate for regression libraries
- Participate in test case Peer Reviews
- Update test cases based on Peer Reviews
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts within the QA organization
- May support and provide constructive feedback on existing processes and standards
- Become knowledgeable in the technologies used by Application Development organizations
Requirements
- 4 year college degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience
- Must have experience working on thinkorswim trading platforms
- Solid understanding with thinkorswim architecture, development and delivery processes.
- Solid experience working on native mobile applications, both iOS and Android.
- Solid knowledge of financial markets, complex trading /brokerage products/systems that support stocks, stock-options, futures and forex
- Good understanding of technical skills that includes Windows, LINUX, UNIX, JAVA, C++, InterSystems CACHE, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, HTML, XML, Web Services
- Knowledge or experience in one or more of the following is highly preferred - XCTest, UI Automator, TeamCity, Bamboo, Gradle, Maven, XCode, Android SDK, IntelliJ IDEA, Bitbucket, Mobile OS (iOS and Android) including installation, operation and configuration.
- Good understanding of programming using Java or other OO Language (Objective-C, Swift).
- Knowledge and experience with relational database technologies (SQL, schema design)
- Experience with CI tools like Team City or Jenkins or Bamboo
- Knowledge of test repository or defect tracking systems
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills with the ability to come up with creative solutions
- Ability to prioritize workload in an efficient manner
- Effective listening skills
