Quality Assurance Specialist

1. Participate in efforts to develop, document, and implement applicable QA processes and procedures to provide more effective quality methods within the group in support of providing quality products
2. Create, implement, maintain and enhance test plans, test scripts and test methodologies that ensure exhaustive testing of all assigned software systems to ensure compliance with software/system specifications
3. Develop software quality test plans and test cases and lead in setting and maintaining the standards for Software Quality Assurance test documentation
4. Be highly committed to create world class automation for regression and feature testing
5. Design, implement and maintain comprehensive test plans to ensure software requirements are met
6. Collaborate with developers to improve overall product quality by emphasizing defect prevention throughout the development process
7. Maintain a high degree of error free programs, procedures, systems and documentation on all software application releases
8. Anticipate potential software problems by creating test scenarios that ensure comprehensive testing
9. Define the test plans based on functional specifications gathered from clients
10. Document all testing results in conjunction with test plans
11. Identify and analyze defects/test results and be able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure
12. Identify areas for test improvement through analysis, experience and use of metrics
13. Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner
14. Participate in developing and maintaining good working relationships with peers in product development, project management and client services

• Experience with gathering functional specifications, defining test strategies, preparing test plans, identifying test scenarios
• Experience with regression testing
• Knowledge of web protocols (SOAP, JSON)
• Knowledge of version control systems (Subversion)
• Skilled in QA system development and monitoring ; must understand the key dependencies among existing systems in terms of the flow of the data among them

Distributed Information system of the client intended to maintain operations for one of the finacial instrument trading on global markets, internal & external orders management, risk and P&L calculation.