Application Test Lead

Application Test Lead

Springfield, MA (or) Boston,MA (or) Enfield, CT- Hybrid

Long Term

9 years of experience

Investment Management middle/back-office Test Lead has a combination of experience in technical, investment, and people skills working in a fast paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Both emotional intelligence and the ability to manage a test team and communicate effectively are keys to success. Ideally, candidate will have a strong background in UI, ETL, and database SQL Server application testing in an Agile/Jira environment using Zephyr with investment and/or financial knowledge of fixed income and derivatives data. Experience with on-prem and cloud testing required.

Position is for a test lead to support a new market risk application platform with various testing activities working in a collaborative manner with various team members such as business users, business analysts, developers, and related interfaces. Must be able to navigate issues across business requirements, database development and UI development.

Mastery of Jira, Confluence, and adaptability around agile/scrum processes are essential.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead a team of testers in support of a large transformation effort with test planning, coordination, execution, problem resolution, migration to BAU, and documentation including test case planning and creation, metrics management, functional, integrated, parallel, regression, and automated testing activities
• Maintain test strategy and planning; understand and communicate test cases to test team; manage test case creation, review, validation, and accountability for test results with communication to business and technical teams; and issue escalation when needed
• Analyzing different user requirements and ensuring necessary test coverage is established to support validation
• Support and comply with corporate guidelines and best practices

Knowledge, Experience, Skills & Abilities

· Advanced or Mastery level test management skills with 7+ years’ experience and a Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer or business-related field

· Team player that thrives in a highly collaborative environment

· Proven ability to lead a test team

· Ability to coordinate the work of others

· Exceptional organization and testing skills

• Strong experience utilizing and managing large and complex data sets

· Investment knowledge including testing of SMF, fixed income, derivatives, and pricing data

· Ability to work with various team members across a diverse, geographically environment

· Support testing needs in a UI/SQL platform with multiple environments

· Experienced using Agile/JIRA and Zephyr testing product

• Ability to build strong working relationships across the organization
• Eager to learn and apply knowledge
• Strong communications, both written and verbal, in leading teams and coordinating with peers and other disciplines on driving testing issues to closure along with ability to communicate issues and options for resolution
• Commitment to organizational excellence and constant awareness to seek opportunities to improve processes/quality of test deliverables
• Strong and effective collaborator in working with various disciplines and peer groups
• Ability to understand user requirements and translate into detailed test cases
• Experience migrating project testing processes into a BAU environment for steady state

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: From $50.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 7 years
• 8 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Springfield, MA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Investment management: 7 years (Preferred)
• UI/SQL platform: 7 years (Preferred)
• Agile/JIRA: 7 years (Preferred)
• BAU environment: 6 years (Preferred)
• SQL Server: 6 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location