QA Analyst
2018-04-27 16:32:20
2019-01-28 23:59:59
- Woking, Surrey
- £40,000 YEAR
- 28th Jan ’19
- Closed
The Company
A leading supplier of global financial trading software. The company has offices in and development centres located in each major international region. They are listed on the London Stock Exchange and globally renowned for their financial software products. Their applications are sold in all of the world's major financial centres to top-tier investment banks.
The Role
- Plan, write and execute manual test scripts to validate the trading platform and customer systems
- Manage the testing of large systems, including defect tracking and reporting
- Raise and manage defects against customer systems and product releases
- Assist in maintaining, running and debugging automated test scripts
- Create and maintain strong working relationships, working closely with other teams to ensure issues are progressed
- Understand and assess business workflows within the software and how they should be tested
- Generate and review test documentation
Requirements
- A computing related or numerate degree at 2.1 (or equivalent) and above or relevant industry experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail with the ability to write concise, error-free and unambiguous test cases
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to analyse workflows to reduce false positives and false negatives
- Must be proactive, self-motivated and accurate
- Ability to learn quickly and retain a broad range of functional knowledge about the trading platform
- Able to work as part of a team, whilst also assuming responsibility for your own work
- Adaptable and able to manage multiple ongoing tasks at any given time
- Must be eager to understand new functionality and acquire new skills to enhance capability
- Strong interest in the financial markets and trading