Lead QA Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Cantor Fitzgerald
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
Skills Required:
Preferred:
Educational Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
- Leading the Quality Assurance function for GBX, the firm's flagship front-office platform for trading Fixed Income, and Interest Rate and Credit derivatives
- Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
- Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources.
- Work with Development and Product teams to ensure high quality delivery of features.
- Lead and mentor QA team members.
- Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).
Responsibilities
Skills Required:
- Minimum of 7 years QA/Testing experience, preferably within a global financial firm
- Minimum of 5 years actively working on financial systems
- Understanding of Trading Platforms and Trade processing.
- Test planning skills; requirements mapping, test design and troubleshooting are essential.
- Experience with defect reporting and tracking tools such as JIRA
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle
- Self-motivator
- Working knowledge of SQL
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Front office Trading Techniques
- Knowledge of UNIX/ Linux platforms
- Knowledge of performance testing techniques
- Experience in automating Java applications is a plus
- Experience with FIX protocol is a plus
- Experience in Java, XML, JSON and Web services is a plus
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree required