Senior Quality Assurance Engineer New York, NY (3 days a week onsite work) Long Term Contract
Visa: USC/GCFinancial service domain
Local Only Looking for a Traditional QA Engineer.*Need a strong QA person with a focus on cloud testing / data. Stressing Data Recon and increasing the Recon features for the testing. *Core Focus Areas: Manual Regression Testing: Verifying that new code deployments or updates do not break existing financial reporting, reconciliation tools, or trading logic. Functional & Integration Testing: Validating the end-to-end flow of transactions, trade lifecycles, and data processing between front, middle, and back-office systems. Negative & Ad-hoc Testing: Intentionally inputting invalid data or unexpected user actions to test application resilience and error-handling capabilities. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support: Serving as a "quality catalyst" by collaborating directly with developers, business analysts, and end-users to manage UAT guidelines and verify real-world operational Technical and Domain Competencies Traditional QA teams handle highly complex enterprise systems and generally require a specific mix of financial and technical skills: Database & Data Integrity: High proficiency in writing complex SQL queries to manage and validate financial data stores. Traditional and Cloud Databases. System Environments: Navigating backend servers using Unix/Linux commands and scripting. Domain Knowledge: Understanding specific financial structures such as Securities Lending, Equity Swaps, FIX protocols, and T+1 clearance mandates.
