Megthink - Quality Assurance Engineer - Calypso (7-12 yrs)

Description/Responsibilities :

- 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.

- Support and facilitate user acceptance testing.

- Lead meetings and workstream sessions with team members, cross-functional teams, and business partners to align on business needs and deliver value.

- 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.

Lead Responsibilities :

- Lead a team of employees/consultants.

- Work with onsite and offshore Calypso QA team members to plan, prioritize and manage testing tasks and deliverables.

- Monitor team performance and report on metrics.

- Discover training needs and provide coaching.

- Ensure that the team is consistently delivering quality solutions to the highest standards.

- Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank.

- Communicate timely, content relevant information to stakeholders including escalation of key issues and risks.

Experience/Skills/Knowledge :

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 6 years of leading QA staff

- Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience

Skills & Knowledge :

General :

- Working knowledge of Financial 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 (e.g. UFT, Selenium, RPA) or equivalent automation skills that proves ability to debug automation code.

- Working knowledge of complex SQL and experience with ETL processes is desired.

- Experience with industry standard testing and defect management tools (e.g. ALM, JIRA, Confluence)

- Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).

- Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Strong time management skills and ability to juggle priorities with a history of meeting commitments.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- 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.

Calypso Specific :

- 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 Pricing, Accounting, ERS, Workflows, Reporting, Task Station and Scheduled Task functionality.

- Experience with Calypso versions 16.1 onwards

- Experience with Calypso Hedge Accounting Module.

- Experience with the Calypso Collateral Module with multiple integrations in and out of Calypso with other platforms.

Financial Services :

- Proficiency in Fixed Income, Derivatives, Advances, LCs and Equity products, with the ability to clearly articulate their workings and lifecycle events.

- Knowledge of Derivatives Clearing affirmation processes.