Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (Calypso)
San Francisco, California
100% Remote
Contract
$85/hr - $90/hr
Our large financial company is looking for a contract Lead Calypso Quality Assurance Engineer . This is a remote contract position (client is in San Francisco, CA)
Contract Duration: 6-Months
Required Skills & Experience
What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities
Contract Duration: 6-Months
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of Software Quality Assurance experience in agile development environments in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.
- Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience.
- Working knowledge of Financial Services domain and Capital Markets with Front Office/Back Office operational is required.
- Experience working with Agile/SAFe methodology.
- Experience with test automation and framework tools (i.e. UFT, Selenium, RPA) or equivalent automation skills that proves ability to debug automation code.
- Experience with industry standard testing and defect management tools.
- Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).
- Strong time management skills and ability to juggle priorities with a history of meeting commitments.
- Self-motivated individual who takes the initiative to thoroughly understand existing business processes, system integrations, and dependencies.
- Ability to quickly grasp business concepts, objectives, and processes to establish trust and credibility with stakeholders.
- Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso QA capacity, preferable involved in Calypso Upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion
- In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.
- Experience with Calypso versions 16.1 onwards.
- Experience with Calypso Hedge Accounting Module.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.
What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities
- Acts as a team lead of a Quality Assurance team and supports the QA vision to deliver consistent and value-added testing solutions that align with business needs/goals.
- Adheres to QA standards, applies QA methodology, develops test strategies, and ensures robust repeatable, maintainable, regression for the Calypso platform.
- Collaborates with technical and business teams and communicates risks and issues to ensure high quality solutions
- Maintains awareness and recommends best industry practices to improve overall QA processes and enhance efficiency.
- Lead QA efforts on Calypso initiatives and follow scaled Agile best practices.
- Lead in requirement analysis, design and development phases and determine testing approach for the Calypso platform.
- Leverage extensive Calypso Domain expertise to develop test plan and provide direction to the QA team for test case authoring and execution.
- Drive test automation hand-off practice and support the development of test cases in manner designed for automation (e.g. using dynamic data), and thereby significantly reduce if not eliminate manual testing
- Lead the test case peer review process and support the maintenance of authored test cases.
- Lead the test execution of developed solutions and deliver test reports.
- Types of testing include smoke, system, integration, regression (manual and automated), data/test-driven, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop QA close-out deliverables including requirement traceability matrix and test acceptance report to support go/no-go decision.
- Collaborate with Test Automation team to develop, optimize and enhance automated regression test suites, and coordinate automated test execution.
- Work with Business users to create and maintain test data for functional and regression testing.
- Collaborate with the Calypso development team and test automation team to evaluate new test automation tools and solutions for Calypso API and functional regression testing.
- Lead defect triage and collaborate with business partners, internal, and/or external implementation partners on system failures, root cause analysis, and track defects to closure.
You will receive the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
- Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Legal and Identity Protection Plans
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- 529 College Saver Plan
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.