Software Quality Assurance and QA Tools Engineer

The candidate for this role will be focusing on testing and developing tools for the GUI, and providing consistent and measurable ways to prove data, systems and features delivered. The core system that is being created has been around delivering a trading focused product to give the traders more access to the functionality, and more control over the types of tasks they run, so that the traders have the same level of flexibility to manage their books that they have today in the spreadsheets. In order to do this the candidate will need to:•Passion for quality assurance of end-user applications •Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues •Ability to work at both detailed and abstract levels •Ability to develop automated custom QA solutions without relying on commercial software packages •Ability to solve problems creatively •Comfort working in a distributed team •Ability to communicate clearly in writing, by phone, and in person •High productivity •Willingness and ability to create and adapt to new technologies •Ability to launch new projects and follow through to completion •Desire to solve real problems for real users •Motivated by making customers happyIn addition, many of the requirements can be driven from IT: many of the diagnostic tools and functional requirements in the exotics space will be beneficial to IT to diagnose problems as much as for trading. Making sure these are thoroughly tested and documented is essential to the projects success.Work in this area must also fit within the larger supporting the development and release cycle standards for the overall system.For this role, the skills required in order of importance are: •Experience developing and executing manual and automated test suites •Familiarity with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution •Experience working in a variety of programming languages and environments •Working knowledge of some or all of the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, user interface automated testing. •Experience testing enterprise applications•Knowledge of and experience in financial institutions and their processes•Ability to work with distributed teams•Knowledge of .Net and WPF toolsets an advantageAll candidates must be:•pro-active •self-starters, self-learner•structured and methodical•and above all, have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) Several years of professional experience in QA techniques, QA statistics, quality management, Software Engineering. Excellent communicator with peers, managers and business usersAbility to take ownership of issues and follow to resolutionAbility to work individually, in a team and across teams.Sensitivity to control.Delivery focusedWork well under pressureTolerance for changeGood understanding of the importance of good software development practices Derivatives IT provides development and support of front, middle and back office applications used by the global OTC derivatives business for interest rate, credit and equity derivatives, options and fund linked products.  Interest Rate Products (IRP) is an integral part of the SDII change program.  Specifically we are focused on the migration of the exotics books off spreadsheets onto our strategic risk management and pricing system. This is seen by the head of the exotics business sees as a critically important project that requires additional funding at this current time. As such we have been given an exception to hire into the various SDII related work streams. These are:•Building out more front-office trader tools and functionality•Working on the client-server hook-up, and the server-side functionality•Integrating new models and migrating trades from spreadsheets.Alongside this, we have a team dedicated to support and BAU-related developments. The strategic development will be ring-fenced, but functionality delivered by the strategic teams will be consumed by, and so need to work closely with the BAU teams.The strategic system (called Jane) is an in-house solution that is being adopted by multiple business lines. This is developed in C#,  leveraging TIBCO EMS and Gemstone’s GemFire  on app servers. The front-end is a mixture of winforms, Infragistics and WPF.  The analytics are developed by the quant team (GMAG) and run both locally, and on the calculation farms.All candidates should have solid IT development experience and a proven track record of delivery to the front-office, with experience of derivative pricing and risk management systems using C#, along with the ability to demonstrate strong interest rate products on knowledge.As mentioned, this is an exceedingly high profile project unlike any other within SDII where success will be highly visible to senior management, and individuals will have the opportunity to stand out IT/Analytical/Science Degree Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.

This position, Software Quality Assurance and QA Tools Engineer, was posted on September 28, 2010. The employer is Credit Suisse. Since this job has been published, it has been viewed 42 times.