Associate Quality Assurance Engineer

Reporting to the Senior QA Manager, the Junior QA engineer creates and executes product test plans to ensure software products meet design specifications and product quality standards.  Assists Development team with process improvements to improve product quality.  

Responsibilities & Deliverables: 
 
Your deliverables as a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer will include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Design and implement test strategy for each QA deliverable, based on business requirements, individual input and cooperation with Development, Customer Support and Product Management teams; 

• Report software issues, work closely with the development team to fix them and validate provided solutions; 

• Contribute to all software testing types like functional, regression, automation, performance, documentation; 

• Provide feedback on the quality of the project/product through meetings, testing progress reports and communication with the project team/ stakeholders; 

• Support from a quality assurance perspective the client’s software usage in production; 

• Act as a software quality advocate throughout development, testing, delivery and implementation phases of software development lifecyle; 

• Benefit from internal knowledge transfer and support new joiners in their development; 

• Use individual creativity and experience to improve software and processes quality. 

Required Experience: 

• Bachelor or master degree in Finance, Capital Markets or Computer Science 

• Basic/medium financial knowledge related to banking and/ or capital markets concepts 

• Basic understanding about software testing 

• Basic technical skills or interest in IT (eg: MS Office, Quality Center, messaging, database, user interface technologies) 

• Good written and spoken English 

• Able to quickly understand new concepts 

• Act both as a team player and self-learner 

• Possess analytical thinking, be detail oriented and well-organized 

• Be able to communicate effectively with persons holding different roles 

• (nice to have) Experience with financial/ banking software 

• (nice to have) Experience in a workflow driven environment (ideally software testing) 

• (nice to have) Experience in a global working environment