QA Engineer | New York, NY | Heavy Financial exp needed | Locals
Ashish Kumar
Job Description
Job Title:- QA Engineer
Location: New York, NY, 3 days onsite
Duration :: 6+ months
Experience: 9+ Years
Client:- Jefferies
Note:- Need local and strong candidate
Heavy Financial experience
Job Description:
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.
· Tool Tracking: Rigorous defect logging, sprint tracking, and requirement mapping utilizing platforms like Jira and Bitbucket
Traditional QA at Jefferies rarely exists in complete isolation. The firm leverages a hybrid approach where manual test engineering directly establishes the test cases that drive their automated pipelines (using tools like Selenium, Cucumber, and Playwright) to significantly reduce post-release production defects.
Thanks and Regards,
Ashish Kumar
Senior Technical Recruiter | Sibitalent Corp