Senior QA Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

OneMarketData LLC (“OMD”) is a US-based company with a global customer base and a distributed workforce. OMD Armenia is a wholly owned subsidiary of OneMarketData LLC. We are best known for OneTick, the world’s most powerful tick analytics platform, and are a leading provider of market data, trading research solutions, and regulatory products trusted by the world’s largest exchange group, market-makers, options traders, regulators, banks, and brokerage firms.

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As a Senior QA engineer at OneMarketData you will play a critical role in improving the quality of our product. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of high-quality software.

Role

• Collaborative: Working with the scrum team to determine priorities and requirements based on customer requirements.
• Drive Quality: through manual testing and test automation using Cypress for UI testing and Python for API and end-to-end testing.
  • Do exploratory testing, create and execute manual test plans, write automated tests and analyze any failures.
  • Identify process improvements including current gaps in testing.
  • Determine how best to automate regression tests to improve release agility.
  • Provide “shift left” feedback on any areas of concern.
    • For example, a particular microservice that needs improved resiliency.
    • Ensure critical issues reported by QA are addressed in a timely manner.
  • Highlight product improvements including UI/UX.

• Microservices: You need to be able to understand complex distributed systems quickly and thoroughly to enable you to debug complex issues.
• Planning: Be aware of upcoming features and releases to help identify edge conditions and gaps and plan testing efforts accordingly.
• Agile Participation: Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Reporting:

• • Maintain quality metrics.
  • File good quality JIRA bug reports to facilitate efficient bug fixing
  • Report on release candidate quality, flagging potential release blockers or other concerns.

• Ongoing development: keep abreast of emerging QA tools and best practice.

Qualifications

• Computer science degree or equivalent.
• 5+ years’ experience in software testing.
  
• Experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for complex systems, preferably with excellent knowledge of Cypress and Python.
• Experience developing and executing test strategies and test plans, able to work independently and collaborate with colleagues.
• Experience debugging complex issues in distributed systems.
• Experience reporting quality metrics and issues of concern to stakeholders.
  

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of q/kdb+, qcumber.
• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm Charts.
• Experience with agile and scrum best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, Jenkins.
• Experience with microservices architecture.

General Skills

• English - upper-intermediate, including spoken English. 
• Good communicative skills, being able to explain difficult things in simple words.
• Being eager to learn new technologies (including area-specific).
• Attentiveness, hard-working and goal-oriented mindset (to have the tasks done), ability to work both in the team and independently.

The position will require a background check, signed NDA, signed contract, and signed GDPR processor passthrough agreement (since we act as a data processor under GDPR). Salaries will be commensurate with experience, education, skillset, and local norms. 

Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.