Who we are looking for

Work as a key member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.

The candidate should be a sharp automation engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid software testing foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high-quality solutions.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole. In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable. You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best. 

Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for

As QA Automation Engineer II you will

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team

• Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity

• Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests

• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing

• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices

• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members

• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence

• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery

• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

• Participate in group testing activities as needed

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills

• Communication and Collaboration Skills

• Programming, automation tools, and a strong understanding of QA methodologies. 

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.

• 4 - 7 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment

• Demonstrated experience programming with Java, C#, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash

• Demonstrated experience testing Rest APIs and Web UI automated testing

• Demonstrated experience testing cloud-based, distributed systems

• Talend experience strongly desired

• Expert ability to translate business requirements into technical testing solutions.

• Detail-orientated with excellent written and verbal communication.

• Solid understanding of development technologies, e.g. C#, HTML5, JavaScript, REST, AngularJS, Python.

• Experience in Micro Services, Web services testing using SOAP and REST based service and XML, JSON.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub and other relevant tools.

• Hands-on experience in developing, maintaining and supporting automated test suites.

• Extensive exposure to testing tools such as Selenium Webdriver, Gradle, Jenkins, REST Assured

• Familiarity with TeamCity, Git, Confluence, JIRA, Docker, ELK stack, Dynatrace

• Strong experience with database testing (Oracle, SQL/NoSQL).

• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas strongly desired

• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired