QA Engineer

Job Description

About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):

09
S&P Global Ratings

The Role: QA Engineer

The location: Water Street 55, NYC. or Princeton, NJ (Hybrid setting - 2 days per week onsite)

The Team:

A part of Ratings Technology, the Ratings QA team leads the IT organization in the delivery of trusted quality to our users. From a foundation of disciplined processes, QA seeks out innovative testing solutions, reliable & transparent test execution, and aspires towards continuous improvement in achieving top quality. In close partnership with Product Management and Product Engineering, QA team members help drive quality accountability, and work to ensure our end users receive reliable, stable, defect free products, which help confidently execute our business and elevate our products

The Impact:

As a QA Engineer you will make a key contribution in building solutions to test applications across Web/Windows/API platforms and framing efficient data comparison methods. Your challenge will be reducing the “time to market” for products without compromising quality, by leveraging automation and innovation. You will use a wide range of technologies and have the opportunity to interact with different internal teams

What’s in it for you:

Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious and result-oriented professionals.
Using a wide range of cutting-edge technology to innovate while testing.
An ever-challenging environment to hone your existing skills in Automation, performance, service layer testing, SQL scripting etc.
A great opportunity to think and execute like a developer while performing the role of QA.
Being a part of an organization which values ‘Culture of Urgency’ and ‘Shift Left’ approaches.
A plenty of skill building, knowledge sharing, and innovation opportunities.
Building a fulfilling career with a global financial technology company.

Responsibilities:

Create tools and frameworks with quality code to simplify testing scenarios.
Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams
Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria
Acts as a test lead, planning the work of other testing staff and assigning tasks to meet project deadlines.
Uses strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff
Reviews and approves the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions. Ensures best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, and Database testing requirements.
Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment
Involved in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices
Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities
Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions
Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery

What we’re looking for:

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years of experience in software testing or development with good understanding of testing, coding and debugging procedures
Experience in programming using Python/Java or other languages
Experience in design and development of automated tests using automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Appium) across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers) and root cause analysis
Experience in advising team to identify automatable test cases at different layers (UI, Services and Data layer tests). Ability to working with developers to build automation/performance friendly code is highly desirable
Experience in refactoring and extending test automation/performance frameworks and suites as necessary
Experience of working with SOAP and REST service and understanding of SOA architecture
Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git
Exposure to SQL/PL-SQL, writing SQL queries, stored procedures and RDBMS
Experience with Data Quality testing.
Experience with Test Data Management and mapping automated test code coverage
Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases, engage in Exploratory Testing, creating and maintaining Defect Reports
Experience in performance testing tools like HP Load Runner/Performance Center/Storm Runner, JMeter.
Demonstrate ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong communication skills and ability to deliver clear, concise documentation and presentations
Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience of testing in CI, DevOps, rolling deployment/upgrade model is a plus
Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Azure and experience of testing micro-services, containers, Dockers is a plus

Right to work requirements:

This role is open only for candidates with indefinite right to work within the USA.