Quality Assurance Engineer - Senior Associate
State Street
Job Description
Software Quality Assurance senior associate for analyzing business and technical specifications to define & execute test cases and capture & track defects. This is very exciting role in fast paced development environment to work with extremely talented group delivering large development initiatives.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
- Analyze business and technical specifications.
- Define functional and regression test cases
- Create automation test scripts for defined test cases, using Selenium or equivalent
- Execute automation scripts and capture/save test backup documentation.
- Work closely and collaborate with other team members in a Kanban/Agile team environment as well as in waterfall environment.
- Report and track defects/bugs
- Work with team members to research and resolve issues/impediments utilizing proven problem-solving skills
- Ownership and accountability of applications along with upstream and downstream integrations and successful implementation large and complex projects
- Extensive domain experience in retiree services payment processing including tax domain expertise.
- Work closely with the Product Owners and others on requirements analysis, planning, project management, and execution.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze, design, develop, test, document and implement large software deliverables related to all aspects of testing including functional, security and regression and performance testing.
- Complex software testing that is optimized for performance.
- Add automation test scripts
- Maintain and support existing software applications testing
- Identifies and resolves complex application issues and bugs.
- Must be able to analyze/translate business requirements into clearly defined test cases and execute projects to successful completion within budget and timeline.
- Take ownership to meet or exceed pre-defined SLAs.
- Perform other duties as required.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- 7+ years of experience managing global software testing and support
- 2+ years of experience in test automation
- Experience in translating large complex business requirements into functional test cases and executing it to successful completion.
- Maintains and supports existing software applications.
- Experience in relational databases including Oracle, PL/SQL and Stored Procedures
- Execute resiliency, Lifecycle and technology projects (ex: DR fail and stay, Refactor unsupported software)
- Advocate and implement best practices and improve team processes.
- Experience in requirements analysis and all aspects of software testing including automated testing.
- Proven problem solving, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
- Self-motivated, detail oriented, and highly responsible.
- Must be a faster learner and multi-tasker.
- Must be able to guide and mentor junior testers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Why this role is important to us
Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.
We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.
Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.