Quality Assurance Test Lead

**_About the job_**

A QA Lead is a hands-on lead tester who executes and works with team members to tests changes and improvements to our products, platforms, and services. The target of test is the trading, portfolio, risk-time risk management and compliance capability includes financial models, and algorithms in our system. The QA Lead provides test plans, test estimates and coordinates QA team member for test execution on feature and full product releases. If there are bugs, performance problems or unexpected behaviors of the system, the QA Lead discusses the issue with the development to see if it is an expected behavior or if a change needs to be applied. With regression tests, QA Lead ensures there is proper test coverage on new versions to confirm new features functionality and existing functionality behave as expected. If there are new requirements or improvements made by product managers and developers, you will create test cases and integrate the tests into the manual and automated regression test suite.

**_ Who will love this job_**
- **A detail-oriented helper** - you are enthusiastic about testing trade order & execution management systems, high-speed risk management and risk compliance system using your strong foundation in quality assurance to pay attention to details and work on multiple projects at the same time
- **A** **doer **- you take initiative, have a bias toward action, love narrowing down problems, finding root causes and working through those issues with developers
- **A** **teacher and learner** -** **you like educating colleagues on best practices and equally enjoy learning from them and understanding their objectives
- **An** **excellent teammate** - you are a reliable, positive, proactive, and flexible colleague that assists others in the delivery of mission-critical testing

**_What you'll do_**
- Lead the Quality Assurance team members of assigned product line
- Managing all aspects of QA including strategy, approach, test planning, test estimation, test automation, and test execution (manual/automated)
- Overall accountability for all release test efforts across multiple domains, and apps (including End-to-End Test efforts)
- Participates in all relevant governance activities
- Develop, update, and execute test cases for new functionality with development and product management
- Evaluate and ensure requirements are testable, test cases are created manually and automated
- Provide QA testing status on releases to ensure visibility on test engagements and results
- Manage bugs from discovery through to successful resolution
- Report, track and escalate issues as appropriate
- Troubleshoot issues independently arising during testing
- Collaborate with development leads, product managers and QA on requirements, test data, releases testing
- Lead and ensure the overall quality of initiatives assigned by utilizing appropriate testing activities
- Effectively collaborate, communicate, and build rapport with team members, stakeholders, vendor partners
- Capture metrics to measure test effectiveness, efficiency, and quality
- Champion agility and improvement in test process
- Advocate of test automation and secure, performant software
- Lead and support team members in both knowledge-sharing and cross-training activities
- Lead, mentor, and coach junior staff
- Partnering with other IT Discipline leads to ensure successful completion of end project goal

**_You should have_**
- Experience working in an onshore/offshore staffing model
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Familiarity with agile delivery model and agile testing techniques
- Advanced knowledge of software QA methodologies, testing practices, and tools
- Strong experience employing various testing types (functional, regression, white-box, performance, etc.)
- Familiarity or hands-on experience with any scripting/programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python
- Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, tools like TestNG, Playwright, Selenium, Robot, Postman, RestAssured, etc.
- Practical experience with structure/unstructured databases like SQL, MongoDb
- Understanding principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) preferred
- Strong familiarity with JIRA and test management tools like TestRail
- Strong work ethic and highly motivated
- Strong project management and coordination skills
- Ability to multitask, work independently and collaboratively in a team
- Hands-on testing preferred
- Financial systems/operations background is a plus
- Experience with trade order and execution management systems
- Fundamental understanding of financial pricing models (Black Scholes), risk analytics (Greeks), random and historical simulation preferred
- Experience with Linux, Windows environment is a plus
- A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, Physics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Economics, or other similar field or equivalent qualifications.

**_Why TS Imagine / Benefits_**
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