Application QA Engineer

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Primary Functions and Responsibilities:

• Sound understanding of Testing and designing QA strategies for Front office trading applications and deep understanding of overall financial and asset management domain.
• Able to understand asset management and financial data and design test scenarios/strategies for data flow across business applications.
• Solid knowledge in manual and automated software testing
• Extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and Waterfall models.
• Proven expertise in test design, test development, and QA of cost-effective enterprise level application systems, middleware, and web solutions that exceed client's business requirements and expectations.
• Proven experience using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center (ALM), Jira, Bugzilla, ServiceNow and others
• Hands on expertise with test automation tools such as Spec Flow, Selenium, Coded UI, others.
• Experience in performance of build validation and verification, positive and negative, Boundary values analysis, equivalent classes partitioning, smoke (sanity), functional, integration, system, regression, Ad-hoc (exploratory), cross–browser, user interface and user acceptance tests.
• Proficient in multiplatform (Windows. Linux, MacOS) and cross browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), mobile testing on different devices (Android, iOS Phone/Ipad/Tablet) a plus.
• Experience and/or basic understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security concepts is a plus
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle as well as software testing life cycle.
• Self- driven and self-motivated person with great communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable working as a member of integrated team as well as independently.
• Work schedule flexibility