What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Director or VP/Capital Markets position at Infinity Solutions?
We are looking for experienced professionals in Capital Markets Quality Assurance with a strong background in front office and operations technology. The ideal candidate will have expertise in functional testing with exposure to trading systems, trade lifecycle, booking, and settlements platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Build out a QA team to support the front, middle and back office systems.
- Identify and build a strategy for testing, test automation, defect tracking and integrated testing.
- Understand business requirements and define test strategies/plans for applications.
- Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, test backups, and other QA artifacts.
- Build out QA workflow to ensure controls and effectiveness are in place.
- Execute test scripts via automation tools.
- Conduct smoke/sanity tests using automation for test readiness.
- Identify regression cases and participate in developing test suites.
- Perform integration, regression, compatibility, and user acceptance testing phases.
- Develop utilities to enhance QA efficiencies.
- Participate in daily Agile standups, iteration planning, product demos, and application walkthroughs.
- Maintain and track test deliverables in test management tools.
- Collaborate with business and development teams to deliver work items without ambiguity.
- Replicate production defects in lower environments.
Competencies:
- Prior functional testing experience with a minimum of 7 years.
- Strong functional and application testing skillset.
- Ability to review and understand complex concepts at a detailed level.
- Expertise in creating and maintaining test sets for complex application workflows.
- Proficiency with different automation tools and capability of executing test cases via automation tools.
- Experience working in a distributed team environment.
- Good problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.
- Knowledge in writing SQL queries.
- Proficiency with scripting, Python, Java
- Strong practical experience using Scrum, Agile modeling, and adaptive software development.
- Hands-on experience with test management tools and defect tracking tools like Jira, RTC, etc.
Qualifications:
- 10-12 years of experience in delivering large multifunctional projects.
- Extensive experience in designing and executing test cases for GUI testing, functionality, regression, and integration testing.
- Good understanding and analysis of business requirements and functional specifications.
- In-depth domain knowledge in capital markets and front office processes & systems.
- Ability to work with total commitment towards teamwork.
- Able to work independently with clients, BAs, and project teams spread across various locations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience working with Capital Markets products like Fixed Income, Equities , Structured Products –Derivatives, Repos, Securities Lending, Secondary Loan Trading spanning from Front office to Back office including Risk and Finance.
- QA coordinator with a proven track record of stakeholder engagement and management.
- Hands-on experience in test strategy, test planning, test estimation, test execution, and defect management.
