Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating EVB test cycles.
• Accurate reporting of test status for each stream of work to IT and QA management.
• Ensuring accurate and complete documentation to satisfy our audit requirements.
• Maintain and grow the value added service provided by EVB QA
• Involvement in the Software development life cycle.
• Produce test cases and test plans from functional specification and Change Requests.
• Develop and execute test cases and scripts
• Raise, track and manage defects
• Provide reporting on test results from regular builds that allow for quantitative tracking
• Assess and Automate Test scenarios based on various tools and existing frameworks
• Develop Capacity and Performance tests and use automated tools to run tests
• Be the QA Point of contact for assigned functionalities
• Put QA processes in place if none exist
• The successful candidate should be experienced in functional, systems and regression testing, in automating test cases using RIA test or other test automation tools, in release management in an Investment Banking environment, able to manage their workload and have good attention to detail. It is essential that the candidate has good communication skills at all levels both written and verbal.

Personal Characteristics:

• Experience in IT and understanding of software / platform life cycle;
• Strong technical background
• Strong analytical mindset
• Good communications skills
• Proactive in finding proper decision, defining and implementing solutions for them.
• Team oriented, but can work independently to deliver common goals:
• Perform independent research and self-training;
• Document learned steps and solutions;
• Share findings with team;
• Ability to learn new technologies

Requirements:

• Basic Skills / Knowledge
  • Technical skills – Essential
  • Knowledge of automation tools– especially RIAtest and the ability to maintain the automation scripts already built based on defined framework (FLEX UI)
  • Basic DB Skills (SQL Server/Oracle/Sybase) - To create simple "select, update, delete" queries.
  • Basic understanding of how XML/Web Services/FTP work
  • Operational knowledge of Windows and Unix platforms
  • Use of Ant/Make and Clearcase/Subversion with some Unix/Linux shell script knowledge to do builds
• Additional Skills / Knowledge (optional)
• Understanding and experience in Action Scripting
• Read and understand code;
• Basic understanding of Network components. Understanding of such (but not limited to):
• Data transfer;
• Security / Authentication / Identity / Certificates / Keys;
• etc;