Position: Sr QA Analyst
Location: NY
Duration – 1 yr
This is a total server side testing spot for Real Time Market Data.
looking for candidates to perform testing for our Real-time market data platform. This platform disseminates market data to trading applications and other business units. The focus is on highly available systems that can process large quantities of data with very low latency. These systems carry all realtime data such as stock prices, index values, option prices, and fixed income instruments.
- Performing functional, integration and regression tests on vendor- and in-house-developed market data systems
- Investigating test failures to determine if they are due to problems with the test environment (as opposed to the software being tested)
- Validating data changes to ensure proper implementation of exchange- and BU- requested changes
- Analysing performance metrics such as CPU utilization, throughput and latency to uncover performance degradation issues
- Providing feedback to development teams where applicable.
- Preparing test artifacts to be submitted with the Change Management request
- Designing and developing new test tools to cover additional test scenarios
- Familiar with one major programming language
- UNIX/Linux scripting: Candidates need to be proficient in navigating UNIX servers, have good knowledge of the majority of operational functions in UNIX and be able to read / write and maintain UNIX shell scripts.
- PERL/Python scripting: Candidates should have some exposure to PERL/Python as a scripting language as a minimum. The deeper the knowledge of PERL the better.
- Basic Networking knowledge (e.g. TCP/IP): Additional technical skill on the networking side ; understand the concepts of TCP/IP and UDP connectivity and data transfer. Knowledge of multicast is an advantage.
- UNIX/Linux operating systems: Candidates should understand UNIX concepts in order to perform resource monitoring, and be able to tune operating system parameters according to applications requirements.
- Problem solving skills: Must be able to tackle problems based on limited information, be able to seek out solutions and work around problems. They need to be able to do this in the short term for quick outage resolution as well as proactive problem elimination.
- Interpersonal skills/communication - Good quality English speaking is essential as there is regular interaction with peer teams, internal clients, vendors and suppliers in any other region. Candidates must be able to communicate clearly and concisely to minimize misunderstandings and to ensure fast and accurate dissemination of information.
- Operational background a plus: Candidates who have worked in support roles, and are used to performing in a variety of roles with dynamic in switching between them.
- Basic hardware knowledge for issue analysis.
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