Senior QA Automation

We're looking for an enthusiastic and energetic individual in the role of QA/Automation manager, who will have strong software testing skills, have a good understanding of the business processes and will also have basic hands-on development experience

Successful candidate should be able to:

• manage QA process though the entire lifecycle of tasks/issues
• analyze and understand complex business logic
• manage QA process
• analyze new business requirements and work with the development team on their post

implementation testing and sign-off process in as much white-box and automated way as

possible

• produce repeatable (automated) tests with some input from developers
• actively participate and contribute to improving, simplifying and automating our current release

process

• occasional development of VBA macros for the business data processing and integration with the

Bloomberg terminal

• provide help with understanding of the complex application behavior to Opera production support

team

Essential:

• The desire to communicate with other people, find compromises
• Good written and spoken English
• Understanding of business processes
• Hands-on basic experience in Java, Linux, shell scripting, SQL, Excel/VBA
• JIRA-oriented development process

Desirable:

• knowledge of FIX protocol, Tibco, socket comms/RPC, SVN/Git

We are working on a global portfolio trading application in cash equities department. Despite the fact that the system has been around for quite some time now, it's one of the key apps to our business and is being actively improved, extended and supported by the dedicated people in London, Krakow, Moscow and NY. Technological stack: Sybase database, java 5 middleware/Linux, .Net/C# gui and MS Excel automation in VBA.