Lead Calypso Quality Assurance

Seeking a Lead Calypso Quality Assurance for contract opportunity in San Francisco CA /Remote.

Potential contract to hire

Experience:
Minimum of 8 years of software quality assurance experience in agile development environments in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required

Minimum of 6 years of leading QA staff

Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience

Skills & Knowledge:

Calypso Specific:

• Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso QA capacity, preferable involved in Calypso Upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion.
• In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.
• Experience with Calypso Pricing, Accounting, ERS, Workflows, Reporting, Task Station and Scheduled Task functionality.
• Experience with Calypso versions 16.1 onwards
• Experience with Calypso Hedge Accounting Module.
• Experience with the Calypso Collateral Module with multiple integrations in and out of Calypso with other platforms.

Financial Services:

• Proficiency in Fixed Income, Derivatives, Advances, LCs and Equity products, with the ability to clearly articulate their workings and lifecycle events.
• Knowledge of Derivatives Clearing affirmation processes.

General:

• Working knowledge of Financial domain and Capital Markets with Front Office/Back Office operational is required.
• Experience working with Agile/SAFe methodology.
• Experience with test automation and framework tools (e.g. UFT, Selenium, RPA) or equivalent automation skills that proves ability to debug automation code.
• Working knowledge of complex SQL and experience with ETL processes is desired.
• Experience with industry standard testing and defect management tools (e.g. ALM, JIRA, Confluence)
• Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).
• Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong time management skills and ability to juggle priorities with a history of meeting commitments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated individual who takes the initiative to thoroughly understand existing business processes, system integrations, and dependencies.
• Ability to quickly grasp business concepts, objectives, and processes to establish trust and credibility with stakeholders.

Requirements:

• General:
• 7 years of experience in documenting business requirements and translating them into development User Stories.
• Self-motivated individual who takes the initiative to thoroughly understand existing business processes, system integrations, and dependencies.
• Ability to quickly grasp business concepts, objectives, and processes to establish trust and credibility with stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).
• Knowledge of Agile/SAFe software development practices.
• Calypso Specific:
• Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso BA capacity, preferable involved in Calypso Upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion.
• In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.
• Experience implementing Calypso Pricing, Accounting, ERS, Workflows, Reporting, Task Station and Scheduled Task functionality.
• Experience with Calypso versions 16.1 onwards
• Experience with the implementation and support of Calypso Hedge Accounting Module.
• Experience in implementing the Calypso Collateral Module with multiple integrations in and out of Calypso with other platforms.
• Financial Services:
• Proficiency in Fixed Income, Derivatives, Advances, LCs and Equity products, with the ability to clearly articulate their workings and lifecycle events.
• Knowledge of Derivatives Clearing affirmation processes.

Interview Process - 2 rounds