Quality Assurance Test Lead - Montréal, Canada - TS Imagine

TS Imagine

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

_About the job_

A QA Lead is a hands-on lead tester who executes and works with team members to tests changes and improvements to our products, platforms, and services.

The target of test is the trading, portfolio, risk-time risk management and compliance capability includes financial models, and algorithms in our system.

The QA Lead provides test plans, test estimates and coordinates QA team member for test execution on feature and full product releases.

If there are bugs, performance problems or unexpected behaviors of the system, the QA Lead discusses the issue with the development to see if it is an expected behavior or if a change needs to be applied.

With regression tests, QA Lead ensures there is proper test coverage on new versions to confirm new features functionality and existing functionality behave as expected.

If there are new requirements or improvements made by product managers and developers, you will create test cases and integrate the tests into the manual and automated regression test suite.

_ Who will love this job_
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A detail-oriented helper - you are enthusiastic about testing trade order & execution management systems, high-speed risk management and risk compliance system using your strong foundation in quality assurance to pay attention to details and work on multiple projects at the same time
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A
doer - you take initiative, have a bias toward action, love narrowing down problems, finding root causes and working through those issues with developers
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A
teacher and learner -
you like educating colleagues on best practices and equally enjoy learning from them and understanding their objectives
- **An
excellent teammate** - you are a reliable, positive, proactive, and flexible colleague that assists others in the delivery of mission-critical testing

_What you'll do_

Lead the Quality Assurance team members of assigned product line
Managing all aspects of QA including strategy, approach, test planning, test estimation, test automation, and test execution (manual/automated)
Overall accountability for all release test efforts across multiple domains, and apps (including EndtoEnd Test efforts)
Participates in all relevant governance activities
Develop, update, and execute test cases for new functionality with development and product management
Evaluate and ensure requirements are testable, test cases are created manually and automated
Provide QA testing status on releases to ensure visibility on test engagements and results
Manage bugs from discovery through to successful resolution
Report, track and escalate issues as appropriate
Troubleshoot issues independently arising during testing
Collaborate with development leads, product managers and QA on requirements, test data, releases testing
Lead and ensure the overall quality of initiatives assigned by utilizing appropriate testing activities
Effectively collaborate, communicate, and build rapport with team members, stakeholders, vendor partners
Capture metrics to measure test effectiveness, efficiency, and quality
Champion agility and improvement in test process
Advocate of test automation and secure, performant software
Lead and support team members in both knowledgesharing and crosstraining activities
Lead, mentor, and coach junior staff
Partnering with other IT Discipline leads to ensure successful completion of end project goal

_You should have_

Experience working in an onshore/offshore staffing model
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Familiarity with agile delivery model and agile testing techniques
Advanced knowledge of software QA methodologies, testing practices, and tools
Strong experience employing various testing types (functional, regression, whitebox, performance, etc.)
Familiarity or handson experience with any scripting/programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python
Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, tools like TestNG, Playwright, Selenium, Robot, Postman, RestAssured, etc.
Practical experience with structure/unstructured databases like SQL, MongoDb
Understanding principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) preferred
Strong familiarity with JIRA and test management tools like TestRail
Strong work ethic and highly motivated
Strong project management and coordination skills
Ability to multitask, work independently and collaboratively in a team
Handson testing preferred
Financial systems/operations background is a plus
Experience with trade order and execution management systems
Fundamental understanding of financial pricing models (Black Scholes), risk analytics (Greeks), random and historical simulation preferred
Experience with Linux, Windows environment is a plus
A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, Physics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Economics, or other similar field or equivalent qualifications.