~JOB POSTING~

 

Quality Assurance Managers – 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.  Proprietary trading software products are developed by our client’s Trading Technology team.  They are looking for motivated and experienced people to lead their Quality Assurance (QA) effort and build an industry-leading QA process.  QA Managers will report to he Head of QA and be responsible for establishing and implementing the vision for the target QA process and environments within a specified functional area of the business.

Candidates should be creative and prone to original and forward thought.  Their nature is to give credit where due and readily acknowledge and correct mistakes.  The ideal candidate is highly analytic and driven, possesses exceptional common sense, 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

§         Own and improve test environments and enable the accurate prediction of an enhancement’s impact on the production environment

§         Drive developers and the development process to produce code that is thoroughly testable and meets the highest standards for quality

 

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, managing an automation project / team

§         Experience with white/black box performance testing of real-time systems

§         Experience building and operating heterogeneous environments

§         Experience with automation tools

§         Experience with SQL scripts (writing and executing)

§         SDLC experience

§         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

§         Comfortable giving and receiving constructive criticism in an environment where everyone’s opinion is valued equally

§         Financial services experience is a plus

§         Experience with unit test frameworks (e.g., NUnit, JUnit), a plus

§         Experience with GUI testing toolkits (e.g., Quick Test Pro), a plus

 

To apply please send resume to paul@edeltech.com.   For more information contact Paul Edelman at (508) 947-5300.  We will not forward your resume to our client without first contacting you to discuss the position and obtain your permission.

 

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

paul@edeltech.com