Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs manual/automated, regression, functional, performance testing of business facing applications
• Monitor and track the defects, assign and escalates defects as necessary
• Communicates QA metrics, test results, concerns and project status to management team and other stake holders in a timely manner
• Ensures the QA related documentation such as test plans, performance evaluation, functionality testing and required maintenance planning
• Drives innovation and automation of testing processes by making use of tools or scripts
• Works closely with development, product management, and technical support to ensure that the quality objectives of all projects are met within schedule constraints

QUALIFICATIONS
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 5 -8 years’ experience working in a Quality Assurance role in an IT environment
• Demonstrated experience in test planning, creation and execution
• Experience with structure test methodologies and managing multiple projects/initiatives
• Experience testing all phases of the SDLC
• Experience with process improvement, QA automation and performance testing tools
• Excellent communication skills (written/verbal), ability to work closely with members cross functionally

Experience Required:

• Sound understanding of Testing and designing QA strategies for Front office trading applications and deep understanding of overall financial and asset management domain
• Able to understand asset management and financial data and design test scenarios/strategies for data flow across business applications
• Solid knowledge in manual and automated software testing
• Extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and Waterfall models
• Proven expertise in test design, test development, and QA of cost-effective enterprise level application systems, middleware, and web solutions that exceed client's business requirements and expectations
• Proven experience using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center (ALM), Jira, Bugzilla, ServiceNow and others
• Hands on expertise with test automation tools such as Spec Flow, Selenium, Coded UI, others
• Experience in performance of build validation and verification, positive and negative, Boundary values analysis, equivalent classes partitioning, smoke (sanity), functional, integration, system, regression, Ad-hoc (exploratory), cross–browser, user interface and user acceptance tests
• Proficient in multiplatform (Windows. Linux, MacOS) and cross browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), mobile testing on different devices (Android, iOS Phone/Ipad/Tablet) a plus. • Experience and/or basic understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security concepts is a plus
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle as well as software testing life cycle
• Self- driven and self-motivated person with great communication and presentation skills
• Comfortable working as a member of integrated team as well as independently
• Work schedule flexibility

General Requirements:

• Test process tools like Selenium, Jira, Bugzilla, functional, performance, database, Java, link and web test tools
• Development Languages: HTML5, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, SQL, .Net, C#
• SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban
• Architecture: OOP, client server, web based and mobile applications a plus
• Databases: MS SQL Server, My SQL
• Infrastructure: SVN, TWiki, XMLSpy
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/10, Linux, MacOS
• Software and Tools: Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio

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There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.