Sr. QA Automation Engineer, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

at  State Street Corporation

Sr. QA Automation Engineer, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President
Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street Company, helps enable sound and efficient investing across all asset classes. Investment firms in more than 40 countries use Charles River IMS to manage more than US$35 Trillion in assets in the institutional investment, wealth management and hedge fund industries. Our Software as a Service-based solution (SaaS) is designed to automate and simplify investment management on a single platform - from portfolio management and risk analytics through trading and post-trade settlement, with integrated compliance and managed data throughout. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, we support clients globally with more than 750 employees in 11 regional offices.

Responsibilities :

• Create comprehensive test plans with well-defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance testing.
• Create and maintain automated test script libraries for functional regression testing.
• Document software defects in an issues tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process.
• Manage scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identify and report risks to project schedule and product quality and propose new methods to control and/or mitigate risks.
• Participate in daily standup to report progress status to Scrum Lead and project team members.
• Provide testing leadership for the projects assigned to.

Requirements:

• Successful candidate should have 5+ years experience in software testing in a process driven and fast-paced environment, 10+ years overall IT experience. Recent experience must include hands-on testing.
• Extensive experience in creating test cases, scripts, use of automated test tools, testing client/server applications.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements to technical testing solutions.
• Extensive experience in full cycle testing including functional testing, system testing, integration testing, performance, and stress testing.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong partnership and relationship building skills.
• Experience with financial software testing is preferred.
• Experience in knowledge of industry standard best practices as related to software testing.
• Experience in all phases of software application design, development and testing.

• Create comprehensive test plans with well-defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance testing.
• Create and maintain automated test script libraries for functional regression testing.
• Document software defects in an issues tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process.
• Manage scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identify and report risks to project schedule and product quality and propose new methods to control and/or mitigate risks.
• Participate in daily standup to report progress status to Scrum Lead and project team members.
• Provide testing leadership for the projects assigned to