QA AutomationTester - SGA Inc.
New York, NY
About the Job
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a mid-level QA Automation Tester role for a contractor position with one of our premier financial services clients in midtown Manhattan, NYC. This will be a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days/week onsite.
Responsibilities:
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
Responsibilities:
- Raise the bar on our software delivery through manual and automated performance and functional checks
- Provide testing services with business analysts and developers following a scrum methodology
- Plan and coordinate all cycles of testing, including functional-level system tests and business scenario-based testing, to ensure proper test coverage while mitigating redundancy where possible
- Under minimum or no supervision, carry out procedures and tests to ensure that the firm's application and services meet standards and end-user expectations Primary responsibilities estimated percentage allocation
- Strong experience testing web-based and desktop applications
- Relatively sound knowledge in automation technologies
- Experience in both front end, middle tier and backend testing automation
- Demonstrated experience in integrating automated tests with test management and reporting repositories, including defect tracking and requirements management tools
- Experience Testing on AWS platform
- Deep understanding of database/backend testing,
- Strong knowledge of SQL, including transaction processing concepts, and large-scale dataset manipulation for test initialization
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), presentation, client management skills required
- Experience in Agile/Scrum development model
- Good understanding of services (example: REST), JSON and XML data formats
- Strong knowledge of building tests for RESTful APIs
- Experience with automated verification techniques (model-based verification )
- Experience with or understanding of test cases and test input generators, including combinatorial tools
- Strong understanding of performance testing concepts
- Big plus ==> Experience working in financial services companies, such as asset managers, hedge funds and/or broker/dealers
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
Source : SGA Inc.
