Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Job description

Company Description:

AB is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, individuals and Private Wealth in major markets around the world. AB employs more than 500 investment professionals with expertise in growth equities, value equities, fixed income securities, blend strategies, and alternative investments, and, through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, operates in more than 20 countries. AB's research disciplines include fundamental research, quantitative research, economic research and currency forecasting capabilities. Through its integrated global platform, AB is well-positioned to tailor investment solutions for its clients. AB also offers independent research, portfolio strategy and brokerage-related services to institutional investors.

IT Group Description:

The Private Wealth Quality Assurance team works closely with the Private Wealth group to provide testing services for a collection of related Private Wealth projects, which involve applications used by the Wealth Management groups as well as the PC Sales, Servicing and Marketing teams.

IT Job Description:

We are seeking a Nashville based Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to join our Quality Assurance team in Private Wealth.

Describe the applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports:

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will manage the testing program for the Business Process Management team. This role will manage testing in an agile, dynamic environment. It will include developing a testing strategy, managing a testing team, supervising test automation, and ensuring quality delivery of projects. The person in this role will liaise with business partners, business analysts and systems developers to ensure effective test plans and cases. In addition, the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will facilitate communication with stakeholders, ensuring that all are informed on testing progress and outcomes.

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst must be adept both at traditional QA best practices (analyzing business requirements and creating test plans for their verification) and agile methodology (working closely with users and developers to create test cases as new functionality emerges). In support of both approaches, this role will utilize both manual and automated testing techniques.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Analyzes complex functional requirements, performs research on current processes, design documents test strategy, and interacts with the business analysts and developers to author comprehensive test plans and test scripts

* Collaborating with project managers, business analysts, and business partners to understand and analyze business requirements for projects

* Managing an offshore QA team to assist in test case development for new functionality and regression testing

* Reviews and validates system data and product quality to ensure system integrity and data fixtures

* Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual functional, integration, and regression tests and assures that tests are successfully completed prior to production

* Functional, Compatibility and Regression test execution across various environments.

* Identifies, report and manages defects

* Provides support for smoke testing of production releases after regular business hours

* Provides accurate testing status to leadership and project team(s)

* Active participant in process improvements, voice project concerns and impacts

* Acts as an advocate for the end user experience

What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?

The Business Process Management team will be working on projects across the AllianceBernstein's Private wealth business units, giving the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst the unique opportunity to view multiple aspects of how a mature, global asset management/financial firm operates. In addition, the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will be exposed to innovative technology including data analytics and automation tools. The projects he or she will work on are innovative projects that have a real impact on AllianceBernstein's business.

What is the professional development value of this role, i.e. what learning and professional growth does the role offer the candidate?

This role will allow the candidate to learn multiple aspects of AllianceBernstein's operations and grow his or her knowledge of the financial industry. The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will develop experience improving complex problems with innovative solutions. There is enormous growth opportunity in this role. From a functional point of view, they would be learning how investment process works from a client engagement standpoint. The systems they will support are critical to the success of our advisors to help clients grow.

Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following):

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

* BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Economics or related major

* 6+ years' experience in the field of Quality Assurance with strong QA fundamentals, experience in functional testing, regression testing and exploratory testing

* 4+ years' experience in testing complex enterprise Windows/WPF applications with multiple upstream and downstream integrations

* Experience working in the finance industry or with financial systems/data is preferred, but not required

* Experience with leading testing projects for complex, cross functional systems

* Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support

* Experience in managing and reporting of defects

* Keen understanding of SDLC, STLC

Skills:

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills

* Experience writing, managing and executing end to end test plans and test cases

* Analytical and problem-solving skills

* Detail oriented, self-starter and a team player

* Ability to follow a project schedule, juggling tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines

* Ability to prioritize tasks within the project and work with minimal supervision

* Ability to work and deliver in an agile environment supporting multiple teams

* Working knowledge of JIRA (or similar tool) for release management and issue tracking

* Experience with relational database technology (e.g., Sybase, SQL Server) and SQL queries

* Experience working with offshore teams is a plus

"People of color, women, and those who identify as LGBTQ people are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB's policies, as well as practices, seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available".

Nashville, Tennessee