Title - Senior Quality Analyst (Asset Management)
Location - Nashville, TN 37203
Duration ? Contract

IT Job Description:

We are seeking a Nashville-based Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to join our
Quality Assurance Team in the EIMT group.

Describe the applications and business or enterprise functions the role
supports:
This role will provide QA and testing support for products being developed and
enhanced in support of our Portfolio Management business. The applications
being tested support our business users by providing portfolio optimization and
trading functionality in equities, derivatives, and fixed income instruments.

Describe the role:
The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will manage the testing program in
support of the Portfolio Management business. This role will support testing in
an agile, dynamic environment. It will include developing a testing strategy,
managing a testing team, supervising test automation, and ensuring quality
delivery of projects. The person in this role will liaise with business
partners, business analysts and systems developers to ensure effective test
plans and cases. In addition, the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will
facilitate communication with stakeholders, ensuring that all are informed on
testing progress and outcomes.

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst must be adept both at traditional QA best
practices (analyzing business requirements and creating test plans for their
verification) and agile methodology (working closely with users and developers
to create test cases as new functionality emerges). In support of both
approaches, this role will leverage both manual and automated testing
techniques.

The key job responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:

? Collaborate with software developers, project managers, business analysts,
and business partners to understand and analyze business requirements for
projects
? Break down business requirements into functional components to document test
plans and test scripts to verify application functionality
? Develop plans for both automated and manual functional, integration, and
regression tests and ensure that tests are successfully completed prior to
production
? Lead Functional, Compatibility and Regression test execution across various
environments
? Report and track defects and issues and communicate results to the project
team and senior management
? Evaluate upstream/downstream/parallel components to identify and mitigate
potential areas of risk
? Manage offshore QA team members to assist in test case development for new
functionality and regression testing
? Actively participant in process improvements initiatives, especially in
automated process techniques
? Voice project concerns and impacts to senior management
? Act as an advocate for the end user experience

What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?
The person taking on this role will serve as a key member of the product team
responsible for supporting the equity business user community. The Senior
Quality Assurance Analyst will have a unique opportunity to learn how a global
asset management/financial firm operates and help to shape its success. In
addition, the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will be exposed to innovative
technology and automated testing tools which are leveraged by the testing team.
The projects this person will work on are innovative projects that have a
meaningful impact on AB?s business.

What is the professional development value of this role; i.e., what learning
and professional growth does the role offer the candidate?
This role will allow the candidate to learn multiple aspects of AB?s
operations and grow his or her knowledge of the financial industry. This person
will be asked to lead projects in a demanding and highly complex area of the
firm. The role is both technically challenging and requires exposure to
portfolio management and trading concepts. As this person?s technical and
subject matter experience increases, they will be able to take on more
responsibility for advancing the testing process and extending our test
coverage and capabilities.


Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following):
Qualifications, Experience, and Education:

? BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Economics or related major
? 8-10 years? experience in a Quality Assurance position in support of
financial trading and/or portfolio management applications in equity instruments
? The candidate must have experience in structured testing methodology, with a
proven ability to breakdown business requirements into functional components
? Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with
limited availability of documentation or support
? The candidate must also be strong in documenting test plans and test scripts
to verify application functionality
? The candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal and client
interaction skills as they will be required to work closely with business
analysts, a diverse group of users, IT senior management and application
developers, to develop test strategies and to help define, organize, and evolve
the QA practice into a more structured discipline
? Familiarity with the concepts and application of automated test tool
technologies (Framework concepts, Unified Functional Test, Test Complete,
Selenium, etc.) to effectively contribute to planning out automated testing
strategies
? Experience with relational database technology, SQL queries and SQL
programming
? Knowledge of equities trading concepts, industry practices and workflows are
vital, especially in the areas of portfolio optimization, as well as equity and
mutual fund trading
? Keen understanding of SDLC and STLC in both a traditional waterfall, or
agile software development setting

Skills:
Must Have:
? Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a requirement for this
role
? Detail oriented, self-starter and a team player
? Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
? Experience writing, managing, and executing end to end test plans and test
cases
? Ability to influence and persuade team members when needed
? Experience leading and working with offshore teams
? Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), JIRA or
similar tools for managing regression testing and defect tracking
? Ability to manage multiple, competing tasks to meet deadlines in a rapidly
changing environment
? Familiarity with order management and trading applications in the equity
brokerage or asset management space
? Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with
limited availability of documentation or support
? Prior supervisory responsibility over a small team is preferred

Nice to Have:
? Experience with Agile project development with exposure to Microsoft Azure
DevOps and JIRA
? Experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks and integrating with
DevOps CI/CD pipelines
? Experience in automated test scripting using tools like Selenium & Python,
Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP), Selenium & JAVA and Rational Robot.
? Experience in testing API?s using Postman, Python or Swagger

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