What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior QA Analyst position at ION?
The Role
The Senior QA Analyst is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, execute and maintaining test plans and cases in our commodity/energy production, trading, and logistics products, in an agile environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, developers, product managers to analyze the business requirements and build high quality test case that validates the functional and non-functional requirements. Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and the ability to adapt to new challenges in a fast-paced environment is essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
The Senior QA Analyst is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, execute and maintaining test plans and cases in our commodity/energy production, trading, and logistics products, in an agile environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, developers, product managers to analyze the business requirements and build high quality test case that validates the functional and non-functional requirements. Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and the ability to adapt to new challenges in a fast-paced environment is essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Interact with the business experts and customers to understand the end user requirements.
- Design, development, document, execute, and maintain the functional and non-functional business test plans and automated/manual test scripts.
- Collaborate with development teams to resolve issues affecting test automation and application quality
- Diagnose and debug new and existing test cases using modern testing frameworks and automation tools
- Collaborate with local and remote team members across different time-zones
- Promote best practices of agile testing and CI/CD
- Contribute to developing and refining testing processes to enhance quality and productivity
- Coach and mentor junior members of the team
- Participate in stakeholder and customer conversations and demonstrations
- BE/BTech or MS degree in Computer Science from a reputed university
- 6 years of hands-on experience of quality assurance (manual and automation) in software development
- Deep understanding of various QA methodologies (Agile/Lean)
- Ability to assess risks and determine testing priorities based on business impact and project requirements
- Proficiency in writing detailed and clear test plans, test cases, and defect reports
- Experience with SQL, databases, and data comparisons
- Familiarity with Acceptance Test Driven Development, CI/CD practices
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify and report issues effectively
- Experience with proprietary and 3rd party automation and orchestration frameworks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience working in an agile team setting across different time-zones and countries
- Ability to coach and mentor junior members of the team
- Experience in financial or commodity/energy trading software is a plus
- Experience with Endur/Findur/ RightAngle is a plus
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
- Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
- Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
