Job Title:  Senior Quality Analyst

Roles & Rsponsibilities:

• Hands on strong QA tester for EU/US market data and exchange connectivity systems.
• Work as part of global QA & release management team, write test cases, perform QA testing, develop and maintain automated test scripts covering Instinet market data and trading systems.
• Actively contribute to DevOps initiatives like application deployment automation etc.
• Interface with other support, dev & business teams for understanding requirements, testing and automation deliveries.
• Willing to work on all aspects of QA cycle – like integration testing, UAT, regression, test case development ,automation etc.
• Automation of test cases and validation scripts to reduce test cycle time.
• Execute manual tests as and when required, with focus on automating any manual testing.
• Maintain QA environment health and manage release process from development to production.
• Handle BAU changes when development is not required.
• Collaborate with dev and support teams to simulate prod failures & identify failure test cases
• Shift – Delivery based - late shift up to 10 pm whenever testing requires overlap with EU or US exchange timings.

Mandatory Desirabl

Key Skills:

Mandatory

• Strong hands on QA testing, test case creation and server-side automation experience required.
• Experience of testing market data and/or exchange connectivity systems.
• Strong Unix shell scripting with Python (or perl)
• BDD frameworks and test automation (cucumber, Gerkin)
• Understanding of DevOps concept and trends
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (as this is client facing role)
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Quick learner
• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Desirable:

• Knowhow of FIX and/or EU/US exchange connectivity protocols
• Prior Ansible or any other DevOps experience