Overview
QA Manager Jobs in New York City Metropolitan Area at BAMM Staffing
Title: QA Manager
Company: BAMM Staffing
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Role Description:
We are looking for experienced professionals in Capital Markets Quality Assurance with a strong background in front office and operations technology. The ideal candidate will have expertise in functional testing with exposure to trading systems, trade lifecycle, booking, and settlements platforms.
Role Objectives:
• Build out a QA team to support the front, middle and back office systems.
• Identify and build a strategy for testing, test automation, defect tracking and integrated testing.
• Understand business requirements and define test strategies/plans for applications.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, test backups, and other QA artifacts.
• Build out QA workflow to ensure controls and effectiveness are in place.
• Execute test scripts via automation tools.
• Conduct smoke/sanity tests using automation for test readiness.
• Identify regression cases and participate in developing test suites.
• Perform integration, regression, compatibility, and user acceptance testing phases.
• Develop utilities to enhance QA efficiencies.
• Participate in daily Agile standups, iteration planning, product demos, and application walkthroughs.
• Maintain and track test deliverables in test management tools.
• Collaborate with business and development teams to deliver work items without ambiguity.
• Replicate production defects in lower environments.
Qualifications and Skills:
• 10-12 years of professional experience in delivering large multifunctional projects.
• Extensive experience in designing and executing test cases for GUI testing, functionality, regression, and integration testing.
• Good understanding and analysis of business requirements and functional specifications.
• In-depth domain knowledge in capital markets and front office processes & systems.
• Ability to work with total commitment towards teamwork.
• Able to work independently with clients, Client, and project teams spread across various locations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior functional testing experience with a minimum of 7+ years.
• Strong functional and application testing skillset.
• Ability to review and understand complex concepts at a detailed level.
• Expertise in creating and maintaining test sets for complex application workflows.
• Proficiency with different automation tools and capability of executing test cases via automation tools.
• Experience working in a distributed team environment.
• Good problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.
• Knowledge in writing SQL queries.
• Proficiency with scripting, Python, Java
• Strong practical experience using Scrum, Agile modeling, and adaptive software development.
• Hands-on experience with test management tools and defect tracking tools like Jira, RTC, etc.
Preferred Experience :
• Experience working with Capital Markets products like Fixed Income, Equities, Structured Products –Derivatives, Repos, Securities Lending, Secondary Loan Trading spanning from Front office to Back office including Risk and Finance.
• QA coordinator with a proven track record of stakeholder engagement and management.
• Hands-on experience in test strategy, test planning, test estimation, test execution, and defect management.
