Lead Quality Engineer

Job Description

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 10 * S&P Dow Jones Indices The Role: Lead Quality Engineer The Team: The S&P Dow Jones Indices Technology Quality Engineering team comprises of global teams that is responsible for the quality and delivery of applications and infrastructure that power global markets. The Impact: This role is part of the team which focuses on accelerating technology development for the overall data enablement within SPDJI. In addition, the role is part of the team which focuses on data ingestion, data access, data governance, data mastering and data export capabilities. Role is also responsible to test enhancements that perform technical upgrades and InfoSec updates. Whats in it for you: This role provides great opportunities for career growth and professional development to learn about index domain, vendor data needed to support index development, analytics, and strategies. In addition to work on latest technologies. Be part of S&P Dow Jones Indices providers of iconic and innovative index solutions, bringing transparency to global capital markets. Be part of a Global inclusive team where creativity, collaboration and open mindedness are valued. Responsibilities: Be a self-starter; operate independently as part of an agile team, advocate for software testing best practices. Develop, execute, and improve application test suites based on software requirements, technical specifications, and end users workflows. Design and perform hands on test automation solutions and scripts using python, and other technologies determined to best suit our needs. Test and respond to Software Quality with related groups such as Development, Database, Integration, and Customer Support Manage, maintain QA and UAT environments along with build and deployments, co-ordinate production deployments and release planning. Keep abreast in understanding business domain and customer needs to constantly perform gap analysis and remediation in application test coverage. What Were Looking For: Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience. 8+ years of experience in complete software/database testing activities. Hands on experience working with testing frameworks, Cucumber, Carina and/or equivalent specifically for Web applications. Work as a hybrid QA professional with experience in both manual & automation testing. Come up with test strategies and test plans for new and existing features Evaluate requirements and define testing objectives and approaches while working in a global Agile Scrum team. Contribute to end to end testing of software/Database changes on the basis of functional and non functional requirements. Keep regression test suite updated. Identify, document, and track defects, and work with development teams to resolve issues. Hands on experience with Object oriented language like Java or Python. Experience in SQL a must. Knowledge of PL/SQL, No SQL DB, Linux/UNIX, Jenkins preferred. Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies. Demonstrated skills to work in cross functional teams, and proactively resolves issues and escalate appropriately. Experience in Capital markets with exposure to Fixed Income, Equities, futures, and options is a plus.