Full Description

Experience: 8-12 years (required)

Location: Calagary (Candidate is required to go into the office for a Face 2 Face interview with the client)

Hybrid: 3 days REQUIRED in office

QA Engineer-

As an intermediate QA Engineer you will manage QE teams delivering both manual and automated quality testing for financials and securities trading front-end applications. Your understanding of security financial data and securities trading, your experience leading testing of front-end web applications, and your collaborative yet firm approach to getting things done will be critical to your success in this role. This is an individual contributor role requiring hands-on experience in test automation, mobile and API testing along with leadership capabilities to guide and collaborate with offshore teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases for web, mobile and API applications
• Ensure end-to-end quality by implementing testing strategies, automation frameworks, and best practices
• Work closely with developers, product and business stakeholders to align testing efforts with project requirements
• Act as a bridge between onshore and offshore QA teams, ensuring smooth coordination, knowledge sharing and timely issue resolution
• Drive and mentor QA team providing technical guidance and ensuring best QA practices are followed *Collaborate in Agile environments, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives
• Continuously improve testing processes, identify gaps and implement automation where feasible.
• Ensure production roll testing staffing and attend production rolls as needed
• Coordinate tool enhancement needs with infra/tools team
• Communicate on team's behalf to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work in an agile environment with various scrum teams, using test management tools such as JIRA / XRAY

Required Skills & Experience

• • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
• • 3-5 years of experience in information technology/software development with a proven ability to ensure high quality results and with expertise in test automation, agile methodologies and QA best practices.
• • Strong hands-on experience in Java Selenium for UI automation
• • Demonstrated knowledge of Financials and securities trading instruments offered on Morgan Stanley/E*TRADE