Software Development Engineer in Test

Vestmark is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to join our agile organization that is dedicated to delivering a high quality Vestmark product suite, ensuring that it meets and exceeds client expectations. This is an exciting opportunity for you to make your mark in a fast-paced and growing software engineering organization.

The SDET will review functional requirements, user stories and test assets from internal stakeholders; build automated test cases, contribute to our test pipelines, and support the maintenance of the test assets as we deliver our releases to our growing client base.

Responsibilities:

• Apply expertise in specific product areas to ensure that the product suite meets documented acceptance criteria and client quality expectations
• Contribute to the expansion of our automated testing capabilities and coverage
• Instill QA best practices on your scrum team by collaborating on test coverage
• Driver of "QA as a function" mentality on your squad n order that the quality mindset is instilled throughout the development cycle
• Ability to write tests from abstract requirements.
• Provide feedback on product performance and user experience.
• Participate in all aspects of the Agile SDLC; providing constructive feedback during grooming, retrospectives, and planning sessions; periodically demonstrating new functionality to internal stakeholders, as well as members of other scrum teams; become SME for output of your team to assist Vestmark Implementations team roll-out new functionality.
• Contribute to the review of product documentation/release notes.

Skills & Requirements:

• 3-7 years of Software Quality Assurance experience, ideally with a focus in Financial Technology or related domain
• Experience working in a successful Agile environment using Agile SDLC tools such as Jira, Bitbucket and Jenkins
• Foundational understanding of git or other content version control system
• Coded UI Automation, experience with Selenium WebDriver preferred
• Working knowledge of a scripting language, Python a plus
• Experience with web service and API testing
• Performance testing experience, JMeter or Locust.io a plus
• SQL experience (MSSQL, Postgres)
• Demonstrated ability to operate on 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
• Familiarity with testing in Spring frameworks
• Unit testing experience using Jest, JUnit or NUnit frameworks a plus
• Integration testing; inbound file processing, outbound file creation, API testing, configuration testing
• Experience with Financial technologies such as 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 in order 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