Sr Quant QA Engineer

Company Description

Intelliswift Software, Inc

Job Description

Responsibilities will include: 

• Work closely with quantitative developer, financial engineer, and system QA Engineer in transforming quantitative business requirements and use cases into test cases for model validation, functional, regression and integration testing. 

• Create, execute, track and report on model validation, functional and integration test cases of highly quantitative risk management applications. 

• Validate business rules in calculations and quantitative workflow; find, report and retest defects; execute end-to-end testing, integration and functional testing as assigned; track test case execution using Quality Center. 

• Develop test strategies and test plans, ensure product quality, provide consulting on quality techniques, and ensure adherence to proper software development procedures. 

• Estimate QA efforts, and develop testing strategy. Manage QA deliveries for assigned projects. 

• Provide hands on testing support during QA phase and production validation 

• Provide regular status reports to QA lead, QA manager and project manager. 

• Be responsible for collecting raw data and QA metrics. 

• Participate in project meetings to understand requirements and milestones. 

Requirements: 

• Minimum 3 years software development related to quantitative, statistical and/or financial models. 

• Minimum 2 years of experience programming in SAS; familiar with Base SAS, Macros, PROC SQL, and SAS Enterprise Guide. 

• Minimum 3 years of model validation experience with highly quantitative applications. 

• Evidence of ability to design and develop SAS programs. Experience developing and using automated unit testing and data validation. 

• Must be proficient in Unix environments and ability to write complex SQL queries for validating and comparing large volumes of data between tables and schemas in Oracle/Sybase. 

• Must have strong understanding of SDLC and QA's role during each phase 

• Must have thorough understanding of different testing types including functional, regression, integration, UI, Backend, UAT, smoke, performance testing 

• Must have ability to design and develop comprehensive test strategy, test plan and test cases 

• Must have strong background in reviewing business and functional requirements in order to produce high level test strategy and test cases 

• Must have good working knowledge of QC and other defect tracking systems ex) Jira 

• Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills 

• Must be able to work independently and be a good team player 

• Must have ability to work in a highly demanding, fast paced environment managing multi projects simultaneously 

• Must be knowledgeable with Windows OS platforms/Office applications ex) MS word, excel, project, etc. 

• Must be knowledgeable of multi-tier architecture and networking 

• B.S. or equivalent education in financial engineering is required.

Qualifications

Quantitative, statistical and/or financial models, SAS

Additional Information

Multiple Openings