SMA QA Engineering (PWD)

Full description

A QA Analyst – Product Technology will be reporting to the SMA QA Lead in India, the role is responsible to ensure the applications meet the highest quality standards. This person would develop test processes to improve the safety, reliability and maintainability of products and systems. Working independently with limited supervision, this job oversees the performance of various systems, applications, and databases under the Product Technology group.

Responsibilities

• In partnership with the technology and business leads, generate excitement and buy-in for the technology and data outcomes quickly, addressing barriers to success.
• As part of roadmap inform the build and partner decisions, and ensure these are funded, supported to enhance client deliverables and scale.  
• Partner with colleagues across the enterprise and with external vendors to delivery best in class solutions - measuring success in terms of adoption, usage, improvements, and industry recognition. 
• Develop a robust test framework to support regression and automation testing.
• Support the global product technology leadership to increase market-share and margin through adoption of technology.
• Implement a process for continuous improvement, lower costs to serve and improving efficiency.
• Develop and deliver scalable solutions that can be applied to clients and the business. 
• Support modernization of platforms to align with the firm’s tech strategy.
• Focused on building a new stack of applications for supporting product launches, SMA platforms, advisor portal.
• Drive a passion and core competency across the organization for technology transformation. 
• Coordinate comprehensive changes to update how we work or develop new ways of working.
• Set the priorities and focus for local and regional teams to support global engineering and delivery of core internal and client products and services. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong bias towards action – alert to opportunities on transformation and execution
• 6+ years' experience in QA and a minimum of 4+ years in Asset Management organization leading QA related to complex and strategically relevant projects.
• Expertise on Test Automation using Selenium Web Driver/BDD, Cucumber, SauceLabs and other technologies.
• Experience in test automation life cycle and developing the automation framework from scratch.
• Expertise on API testing using Postman/SOAP UI
• Agile proficient.