Quality Assurance Analyst

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Role:   Quality Assurance Analyst 

Team:   Quality Assurance

Department: TechOps

Quality Assurance at Squarepoint is a team of Quality Assurance Engineers who work both on manual testing as well as automation. We believe in ownership of overall quality of front to back applications, striving to improve efficiency by automation, collaborating across teams.

Successful candidates will:

• Be responsible for front to back testing and test environment maintenance, interacting with support team
• Learn business lifecycle of listed and non-listed products from Business Analysts and Users, interact with external vendors, brokers, exchanges certifying the front to back flow
• Drive automation by developing and maintaining automation frameworks for applications across technology like data services, position keeping and risk management

The candidate must be comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with short deadlines, a need for high quality reliable deliverables and strong communication with global colleagues

Overview of Quality Assurance Analyst role: 

• Perform manual or automated testing on firm’s technology applications to ensure that system meets quality standards
• Collaborate with development, business analyst and stakeholders to define and execute test plans
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of trade life cycle of capital markets and products

 Typical Day of Quality Assurance Analyst:

• Design test artifacts based on project requirements, perform end to end testing, defect tracking and reporting
• Perform certifications and conformance testing with brokers/exchanges
• Maintain test environment, identify areas of improvements, identify areas of automation, develop automation scripts
• Collaborate with teams globally to ensure effective communication throughout the testing process

 Skill Set Required for Position:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics or mathematics
• Understanding of trading systems/financial domain with experience in testing front office, back office or risk applications
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with colleagues across multiple regions
• Experience working in Linux based environments and proficiency in at least one scripting language(e.g. bash, python)