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
Additional Responsibilities Include
- Performs manual/automated, regression, functional, performance testing of business facing applications
- Monitor and track the defects, assign and escalates defects as necessary
- Communicates QA metrics, test results, concerns and project status to management team and other stake holders in a timely manner.
- Ensures the QA related documentation such as test plans, performance evaluation, functionality testing and required maintenance planning.
- Drives innovation and automation of testing processes by making use of tools or scripts.
- Works closely with development, product management, and technical support to ensure that the quality objectives of all projects are met within schedule constraints.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- 3 -6 years’ experience working in a Quality Assurance role in an IT environment.
- Demonstrated experience in test planning, creation and execution
- Experience with structure test methodologies and managing multiple projects/initiatives.
- Experience testing all phases of the SDLC
- Experience with process improvement, QA automation and performance testing tools.
- Excellent communication skills (written/verbal), ability to work closely with members cross functionally
Technical Skills Requirements
- Test process tools like Selenium, Jira, Bugzilla, functional, performance, database, Java, link and web test tools.
- Development Languages: HTML5, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, SQL, .Net, C#
- SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban
- Architecture: OOP, client server, web based and mobile applications a plus
- Databases: MS SQL Server, My SQL
- Infrastructure: SVN, TWiki, XMLSpy
- Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/10, Linux, MacOS
- Software and Tools: Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio
Reporting Relationships
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
