QA Test Lead

We are looking for a QA Test Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Test Lead
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 days a week
Job ID number: C1243

Brief Description of Duties:

• Project: The T+1 project is about the transition of bank’s securities processing and settlement cycles in Canadian and US traded securities to a one day (T+1) cycle from the two days (T+2), after the trade capture.
• Need functional QA for T+1 Settlement project, to ensure that systems and processes of all lines of businesses under wealth management landscape are ready with settlement changes prior to the live date in May 2024
• Reason for request: This person will help to develop and manage this data platform under the leadership of the technical lead.

Candidate Value Proposition

• The candidate will gain valuable exposure to the T+1 update occurring across all of the Big Five banks in Canada.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define test objectives and create test plans and test cases
• Executes and manage various levels of functional testing – UAT, Regression, End to End testing, Industry testing
• Defect Management – Articulation of defects in detailed manner and monitor resolution efforts and track successes
• Experience working on applications that cut across multiple business lines
• Testing of Order management workflows for various security types in Equities, Fixed Income, Mutual funds
• Proactive collaboration with testing partners of upstream and downstream systems for environments alignment and data consistency
• Maintaining of test artifacts in JIRA , participate in Requirements/User story grooming, and stakeholder demos.

Must have Skills:

• Experience as a Functional trading QA
• Experience in Wealth Management Domain specifically in Trading is must. Knowledge on wealth management concepts
• Portfolio Management, Order management, Post trade (settlement) processes – Equities/Bonds / Mutual Funds
• Expertise in understanding/validation of securities trade life cycle and Settlement process, front to back (Security master to custodian)
• Experience working on data flow validation between upstream and downstream interfaces, batch jobs
• Execute and manage various levels of testing – Functional (IST, UAT), Regression and End to End testing
• Experience working on capital markets, Wealth/Asset management trading software

Nice to have:

• Experience working on FIX protocol
• Experience working on Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS) , Fundserv