Quality Assurance Lead

The Quality Assurance Lead (QA) is an integral member of an Engineering team, analyzing and testing a high quality Vestmark product suite. The QA Lead will be a very hands-on role, and will be responsible for leading a team that reviews functional requirements and user stories from internal stakeholders, designs test plans, writes test cases, oversees test strategies and performs testing for our new suite of products. You will be the champion of quality on our team, working to help elevate the work of those around you to meet the quality standards our clients expect.

Responsibilities:

• Apply expertise in specific product areas to ensure that all our products meet documented acceptance criteria and client quality expectations
• Instill QA Best Practices in our engineering teams by leading manual and automated test case development, execution and tracking
• QA mentoring for non-QA staff on our team so that they can understand how to better test functionality as it is being implemented to lead to higher quality implementation
• Peer review of automated test code, whether it be scripted UI tests or validating acceptable coverage levels for developer unit tests.
• Provide feedback on product performance and user experience
• Contribute to the review of product documentation/release notes for new versions

Required Skills & Experience:

• 4-6+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience, ideally with a focus in financial technology or related domain
• Experience leading a team of Software QA Engineers in both manual and automated testing
• Experience working in a successful CICD environment using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub , Jenkins, Docker and Gradle
• Microsoft SQL Server experience, you should be able to retrieve and manipulate data
• Working knowledge of a scripting language, python a plus
• Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails
• Experience with web service and API testing
• Performance testing experience, JMeter, Locust.io a plus
• Coded UI Automation, experience with Selenium WebDriver preferred
• Foundational understanding of git or other content version control system
• Demonstrated ability to manage a small team in a fast-paced environment with the ability to change directions as priorities shift
• Positive attitude with a strong desire to learn, grow professionally and have a positive impact on the company, its culture and its products

Desired Skills:

• Understand the deployment and maintenance of an N-Tier application in either manual or automated fashion
• Experience testing with soapUI and Postman
• Familiarity with testing in Spring frameworks
• Unit testing experience using JUnit or NUnit frameworks a plus
• Integration testing; inbound file processing, outbound file creation, API testing, configuration testing
• Experience with BETA, APL, FIX, IDC, Reuters, Morningstar or Bloomberg
• Experience with log collection and analysis, APM and DB monitoring tools
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve and explain system level issues affecting application
• Work across teams and disciplines to find an equitable solution to problems that arise

Education:

• BS degree in Finance, Computer Science or equivalent work experience. MSCS is a plus

Vestmark is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Vestmark prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability status, protected military or veteran status, and genetic information.  #LI-TG1 #LI-Hybrid