Senior QA Analyst - Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.

Job Purpose

This is a position with ICE Clear Credit (ICC), a subsidiary of ICE Group. ICC is the world’s largest systemically important clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS). ICC is an entrepreneurial and aggressive organization that implements world-class risk management solutions for the CDS marketplace. A successful candidate maintains a hands-on pragmatic approach with an understanding of the dynamics of the financial marketplace.  ICC Systems span:

• OLTP systems for managing business and system workflows
• Distributed batch processing systems for quantitative risk analytics
• Enterprise Integration systems for ETL and Data Feed Management
• Reporting systems for Member, Regulatory and Compliance
• User Interface systems for the external marketplace

Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Analyst with focus on testing of complex Risk Systems, you will partner with Risk Management professionals, System Analysts, Development and System Operations to ensure business, technical, and operational requirements are satisfied within the required time frame with no adverse impact to existing functionality or operational processes.  As a member of the QA team, you are responsible for every line of code delivered into customer facing environments.

• Design, development and execution of testing of applications concerning risk model algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations, portfolio margining and backend services supporting risk analytic user interfaces. 
• Establish and evolve a test strategy that parallels the development of the risk development team as well as aligns with existing test strategies.  This is achieved by first understanding the business, technical, and operational requirements and then building comprehensive test scenarios which are reviewed with the project team. 
• Develop associated test data, execute test cases, and report any defects encountered. 

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from a four year college or university with a major in computer science or mathematics; or five to eight years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years experience in software QA/Testing preferably on one or more large, highly transactional systems deployed and used in production. 
• Prefer 5+ years experience working in UNIX/Linux and SQL/Oracle environments. 
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable with Financial Mathematics – including basic statistics and calculus. Familiar with the use of statistical and stochastic models in pricing of financial derivatives. 
• Prefer knowledge of OTC Credit Derivatives and/or other interest rate or other OTC derivatives – CDS, Structured Products, Interest Rate Products, Options
• Strong knowledge of Java and object oriented system technologies
• Solid knowledge of development practices and application architecture
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast paced environment. 
• Results-oriented, self-motivated and have the ability to thrive in a fast-pace environment. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and decision making ability.
• Reports activities to management through daily stand up meetings, formal updates, project team meeting and other reports as needed.
• Adheres to corporate and department standards, policies and procedures. Contributes to the development and refinement of department standards, processes and procedures
• Researches and recommends technology solutions
• Develops knowledge and/or experience in the following areas
• Business functionality
• High level programming languages
• Operations, Technical Support and Production Control operating environment
• Department standards, guidelines and procedures
• Primary Technologies
  • Core Java
  • Spring (Core, Boot, Cloud, Batch, Security, Integration)
  • Eclipse
  • Source Code Management (git)
  • Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, JUnit, TestNG
  • Oracle, MongoDB
  • Microservice Architecture
  • REST, WebSockets
  • PSQL, JDBC, JPA, Liquibase
  • Sencha(EXT, Touch), AJAX, Electron,  Node, Node.js
  • JMS, WebSphere MQ, ActiveMQ

Schedule

This role offers work from home flexibility.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability or veteran status, or other protected status.  

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