Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - 1612307

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Durham, NC
Posted on: December 30, 2016

Job Description:

Duties: Will serve as a Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with

responsibility for quality assurance and testing of Fidelity software

applications, and support of the installation of high quality software

products into the Fidelity production environment. This role includes

analysis of client and product system requirements, including Systems

Requirements Analysis (SRA) / System Design Specifications (SDS) and

enhancement requests. Testing is focused on ensuring that projects and

products meet system quality standards by planning, designing, and

executing the appropriate system test cases and developing test automation

for both functional and regression purposes. Will develop system test

strategies and plans, mine and manipulate system test data, write and

execute system test cases, perform front-line triage of issues found during

execution, and retest defects through resolution. Will proactively identify

strategies to prevent defects from entering the system.

Primary Responsibilities:

• As an individual contributor, will create and develop test

automation to support functional and regression test objectives and

advocate for continued development of automation within the functional area.

• Design and develop test automation frameworks; automate existing

manual regression test cases; and identify opportunities to leverage

automation.

• Develop valid test approaches and scenarios.

• Review requirements/design documentation, and develop and execute

test strategy, test plans, schedules, test execution, and QA artifacts.

• Communicate plans, project status, project risks, and project

metrics to all levels of the project team, including our supporting teams.

• Document defects in HP Quality Center 11 and implement traceability

between test cases and requirements documentation.

• Communicate with developers and business analysts to resolve issues

or questions pertaining to test creation or test execution.

• Identify, communicate, and proactively manage project risks as well

those of our supporting teams.

• Provide assistance/guidance to junior level team members in

scripting/automation, and provide general support to the larger team both

onshore and offshore.

• Actively participate in the overall team objectives and improvement

initiatives.

• Partner with development teams to build an understanding of QA and

its role in the project lifecycle.

• Provide input for go/no-go decisions.

• Participate in monthly production install validation activities and

off-cycle product validations as necessary.

• Adopt shift left in testing lifecycle by implementing DevOps and

continuous testing using Jenkin and UFT scripts from ALM.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (willing to accept foreign education

equivalent as well as three-year foreign bachelor’s degree) in Computer

Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems,

Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of

experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience in

development of software test automation for financial or insurance products

and services; or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education

equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology,

Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and

one (1) year of experience in the job offered or one (1) year of experience

in development of software test automation for financial or insurance

products and services. Candidate must also possess: Demonstrated Expertise

(“DE”) defining architecture and automation framework for web and desktop

brokerage applications (including regulatory, processing, and recordkeeping

functionality) using UFT (with mainframe, Web services, and database)

within a testing framework; DE analyzing and automating Application

Programming Interfaces (APIs) using SOAP UI; DE in source control

management for automation scripts using git stash or SVN, and operating and

managing on-demand infrastructure (virtual and cloud environments); DE in

Test Data Management, including ETL testing and data transformation, and

writing structured database queries on both mainframe DB2 and distributed

platforms.

To apply, visit http://jobs.fidelity.com and search for Job Number 1612307.

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