Senior QA Testing Engineer

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly-growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services. Whether clients are managing corporate retirement assets, running a business or wanting choice beyond traditional asset options, we provide flexible and digital solutions to support our clients' success. Ultimately, we aim to educate and increase access to investments to help our clients on their journey to retirement readiness, but do not provide investment advice.
Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture. We have been recognized for our tremendous growth on lists, such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and have also been recognized for our positive workplace culture on the 2019 Best Places to Work in Illinois list, as well as the 2019 Model Workplace Award and 2018 Champion for Young Professionals Award from the Greater Oak Brook Chamber of Commerce. Millennium Trust employees live out the values of Do Right, Excel, Collaborate, Innovate and Celebrate and deliver the brand promise of going "Above and Beyond," so each client experiences the highest level of service.
We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. If you enjoy a collaborative, fun environment that encourages career development, Millennium Trust is the place for you!
POSITION SUMMARY:
As a member of the Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing staff, the Senior Quality Assurance and Testing Engineer will be responsible for all aspects of requirements gathering and testing for the projects they are assigned. Working under the direction of the assigned Project Manager and the AVP, Quality Assurance, the Senior Quality Assurance and Testing Engineer will be involved in the complete lifecycle of the assigned project(s). This position will require the incumbent to assume multiple roles within the project team as needed - Business Analyst (BA), manual QA Tester, and QA Automation Engineer. The incumbent will be expected to build the appropriate relationships and trust at all levels within the organization as they effectively communicate project issues, status and successes with all team members at all levels. The incumbent will also help assess and identify QA and Testing continuous improvement opportunities. This person must be creative, client focused, solutions-driven, organized, and have the ability to thrive in an extremely dynamic environment as well as have exceptional people skills.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Develop, articulate and document business functional and non-functional requirements
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into testing requirements.
• Read, analyze and interpret technical software requirements, specifications, as well as financial and/ or governmental regulations
• Write and execute test cases to be ultimately automated
• Execute test assets including test suites, test plans, test cases, automated and manual test scripts
• Specify and/or develop test harnesses
• Identify, create and refresh test data sets as needed to satisfy all manual and automated testing needs
• Approach testing from different perspectives - from overall project objectives to specific test cases and scenarios
• Assist with production support activities for Avoka-based applications via Salesforce, as needed
• Develop and maintain Environment Management processes, policies, procedures and calendaring
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Certifications: CSQA or CSQE Financial services related experience and/or certifications
• 5-7 years of experience
• Minimum 5 plus years of Manual Testing web-based, transactional applications
• Minimum 3 plus years of Automated Testing web-based, transactional applications
• Demonstrated ability to act effectively as a member of an engineering team in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Able to multi-task and adapt quickly.
• Ability to very quickly understand and relate project status and issues via clear verbal and written means.
• Familiarity and/or experience with defect tracking systems and PPM applications
• Must have a working knowledge of standard software QA methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have a strong attention to detail.
• Must be passionate about quality
• Strong manual testing skills.
• Intermediate C# and/ or .NET experience
• Intermediate Java/ Java Script experience
• Intermediate SQL experience
• Intermediate PEARL experience
• Intermediate Python experience
• Beginner to intermediate XML experience
• Must possess strong skills in personal diplomacy and customer service skills and consistently demonstrate a high level of motivation, commitment to teamwork, professionalism and trustworthiness
• Knowledge of defect management and other Agile/ Scrum applications and tools preferred
• Knowledge of ITIL/ITSM practices and framework preferred

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