Quality Assurance (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Boston, MA): Will serve the Company by testing software for advanced internal Client Server applications. Will test State Street's proprietary, industry-leading platforms by coordinating with development, writing test cases, executing tests, contributing to building our automated testing tools and scripts, and conducting product testing supporting the Company's QA environment. Specific duties include: analyzing testing requirements for State Street's software platforms and designing effective test cases to meet requirements; working closely with QA team members, development and other IT teams to ensure quick resolution of reported issues; writing, reviewing, and implementing test plans and test cases (manual and automated); taking ownership of product modules, QA effort estimation, and performance of required testing for all software modifications; developing System and Integration ETL Test plans, ETL Test Strategy and Test scenarios for functional testing, integration testing and regression testing based on the system requirements and the high-level design documents; building complex SQL queries to validate direct mapping, default values and complex transformations as part of ETL process by Informatica/Talend tools; executing SQLs every release to validate data mappings and maintain/enhance SQLs as required; implementing/developing QA tools to translate the XML and .DAT files into database tables and build Excel based macros for report comparison in xls and csv format; monitoring Autosys/Quartz jobs/logs which load data from source systems to target systems; implementing automation testing for end-to-end ETL data validations; working with Operations Team to resolve production issues as needed; documenting all test artifacts, including test cases and test plans, in the Company's Test Case Management System; researching technologies and methodologies which will improve the Company's test practices. Role involves utilizing experience with foreign exchange trading applications and large, complex business applications and distributed systems; troubleshooting, debugging, and analysis skills; and databases (Oracle, SQL) Web Services testing. Hybrid-remote telecommuting permitted pursuant to Company policy.
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Minimum requirements are: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field, plus 5 years of experience in any occupation/title providing software quality assurance engineering and testing. Alternatively, will accept a Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3 years of experience in any occupation/title providing software quality assurance engineering and testing.
Must have: proven ability to analyze customer requirements and design effective test cases; proven experience building complex SQL queries to validate direct mapping, default values and complex transformations; proven experience using Informatica/Talend tools; proven ability to ensure quick resolution of Customer reported issue; proven ability to write, review, and implement test plans and test cases (both manual and automated); demonstrated experience in taking ownership of product modules, QA effort estimations, and performing the required testing for all software modifications; proven ability to document all Test artifacts including Test Cases and Test Plans in the Test Case Management System; proven ability with large, complex business applications (distributed systems); demonstrated experience in understanding the software development lifecycle, especially in Agile; demonstrated experience with Web Services testing; demonstrated experience with UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems; proven ability using standard UNIX utilities to do testing and identify issues; and demonstrated experience with automation tools and scripting. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the stated ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years or amount of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently).
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Salary Range:
$130,021 - $190,000 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.