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About the role
QA Engineer
New York, NY
3 days a week onsite work
Traditional QA Engineer.
Core Focus Areas:
Manual Regression Testing: Verifying that new code deployments or updates do not break existing financial reporting, reconciliation tools, or trading logic.
Functional & Integration Testing: Validating the end-to-end flow of transactions, trade lifecycles, and data processing between front, middle, and back-office systems.
Negative & Ad-hoc Testing: Intentionally inputting invalid data or unexpected user actions to test application resilience and error-handling capabilities.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support: Serving as a "quality catalyst" by collaborating directly with developers, business analysts, and end-users to manage UAT guidelines and verify real-world operational
Technical and Domain Competencies
Traditional QA teams handle highly complex enterprise systems and generally require a specific mix of financial and technical skills:
Database & Data Integrity: High proficiency in writing complex SQL queries to manage and validate financial data stores. Traditional and Cloud Databases.
System Environments: Navigating backend servers using Unix/Linux commands and scripting.
Domain Knowledge: Understanding specific financial structures such as Securities Lending, Equity Swaps, FIX protocols, and T+1 clearance mandates.
Tool Tracking: Rigorous defect logging, sprint tracking, and requirement mapping utilizing platforms like Jira and Bitbucket
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