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Engineer, Quality Assurance

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Performs manual/automated, regression, functional, performance testing of business facing applications
Monitor and track the defects, assign and escalates defects as necessary
Communicates QA metrics, test results, concerns and project status to management team and other stake holders in a timely manner
Ensures the QA related documentation such as test plans, performance evaluation, functionality testing and required maintenance planning
Drives innovation and automation of testing processes by making use of tools or scripts
Works closely with development, product management, and technical support to ensure that the quality objectives of all projects are met within schedule constraints

QUALIFICATIONS
Education:

Bachelor's Degree required
5 -8 years’ experience working in a Quality Assurance role in an IT environment
Demonstrated experience in test planning, creation and execution
Experience with structure test methodologies and managing multiple projects/initiatives
Experience testing all phases of the SDLC
Experience with process improvement, QA automation and performance testing tools
Excellent communication skills (written/verbal), ability to work closely with members cross functionally

Experience Required:

Sound understanding of Testing and designing QA strategies for Front office trading applications and deep understanding of overall financial and asset management domain
Able to understand asset management and financial data and design test scenarios/strategies for data flow across business applications
Solid knowledge in manual and automated software testing
Extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and Waterfall models
Proven expertise in test design, test development, and QA of cost-effective enterprise level application systems, middleware, and web solutions that exceed client's business requirements and expectations
Proven experience using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center (ALM), Jira, Bugzilla, ServiceNow and others
Hands on expertise with test automation tools such as Spec Flow, Selenium, Coded UI, others
Experience in performance of build validation and verification, positive and negative, Boundary values analysis, equivalent classes partitioning, smoke (sanity), functional, integration, system, regression, Ad-hoc (exploratory), cross–browser, user interface and user acceptance tests
Proficient in multiplatform (Windows. Linux, MacOS) and cross browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), mobile testing on different devices (Android, iOS Phone/Ipad/Tablet) a plus. • Experience and/or basic understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security concepts is a plus
Strong understanding of software development life cycle as well as software testing life cycle
Self- driven and self-motivated person with great communication and presentation skills
Comfortable working as a member of integrated team as well as independently
Work schedule flexibility

General Requirements:

Test process tools like Selenium, Jira, Bugzilla, functional, performance, database, Java, link and web test tools
Development Languages: HTML5, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, SQL, .Net, C#
SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban
Architecture: OOP, client server, web based and mobile applications a plus
Databases: MS SQL Server, My SQL
Infrastructure: SVN, TWiki, XMLSpy
Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/10, Linux, MacOS
Software and Tools: Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio

Reporting Relationships

Lead Engineer, Quality Assurance COE

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By Ares Management

We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to deliver consistent and attractive investment returns throughout ma...

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FUNDING

Private

INDUSTRY

Investment & Asset Management

TEAM SIZE

1001-5000

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Los Angeles, CA

DATE POSTED

August 4, 2023