~JOB
POSTING~
Quality
Assurance Engineers – Hedge Fund Firm
Leading
Investment Management and Hedge Fund Firm
Greenwich, CT
area
Excellent
salary, benefits, and generous bonus
Relocation
assistance available
Our client is a leading
investment management and hedge fund firm with a refreshing corporate culture
that encourages curiosity and learning from the newest hire to the CEO. They
hire the best and the brightest and maintain the highest standards of
excellence. Dependable trading technology is critical to our client’s business.
They are looking for motivated and experienced individuals with demonstrated
success and a proven track record in applying QA methodologies to improve the
overall quality of mission-critical applications.
Candidates should be
creative and forward thinkers. Their nature is to give credit where due and
readily acknowledge and correct mistakes. The ideal candidate is highly analytic
and driven and enjoys working in a dynamic, fast-moving
environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
--Ensure that each software
enhancement deployed to the trading desk achieves its specific purpose or
benefit and does not degrade any other feature or performance
--Work with the
development team to understand systems and use that knowledge to grow and
improve our client’s suite of manual and automated regression
tests
REQUIREMENTS
--Bachelor’s degree (Finance, Computer Science, or
Engineering, preferred) and demonstrated academic success at a leading college
or university
--3 or more years’ QA experience
--Experience with
white/black box performance testing
--Experience with SQL scripts (writing
and executing)
--Experience with both manual and automated
testing
--Experience with defect tracking
--Coding skills
--Desire and
ability to improve systems and processes
--Superior problem-solving skills
using exceptional common sense and a practical approach
--Thoroughness and
attention to detail
--Excellent verbal and written communication
skills
--Excellent documentation skills
--Comfortable giving and receiving
constructive criticism in an environment where everyone’s opinion is valued
equally
DESIRED CRITERIA
--Financial services
experience
--Experience with unit test frameworks (e.g., NUnit, JUnit)
--Experience with GUI testing toolkits
(e.g., Quick Test Pro, VB Scripts)
--Proficiency in one or more scripting
languages (e.g., Perl, python)
--Experience writing and executing manual and
automated test cases
To apply please send
resume to paul@edeltech.com. For more information contact
Edelman
& Associates is an executive search and technical recruiting firm
specializing in the software, biotech, and financial services
industries.
Edelman
& Associates
Paul
Edelman, Managing Director
508-947-5300