Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)

Quality Assurance Analyst - Indexes

Posted 23 Days Ago

Chicago, IL

Hybrid

Junior

Fintech • Financial Services

The Role

The Quality Assurance Analyst will conduct quality testing and monitoring of CRSP indexes and related processes, analyze requirements, develop test strategies, and troubleshoot problems. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining test cases, documenting testing outcomes, working collaboratively with project teams, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

Summary Generated by Built In

GENERAL SUMMARY: The primary area of responsibility is of quality acceptance testing and monitoring of CRSP indexes and related processes, financial research data, and software products. Proficiency working with complex data is required as well as experience with industry standard Quality Assurance tools for test case development, test execution, and defect management. The successful candidate will have quantitative and analytical skills and be able to understand complicated corporate actions and analyze the impact to CRSP Index Systems. A finance background, including familiarity with indexing and an understanding of corporate actions and their impact on securities and their indexes is key to success.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Analyze, understand, and clarify requirements, devise a test strategy to adequately cover the requirements, develop high-level test scenarios that implement the strategy, elaborate scenarios into detailed test cases.

Effectively troubleshoot problems reported both internally and by subscribers, and report clearly and accurately to appropriate parties.

Add and maintain functional test cases in the regression test suite to ensure comprehensive coverage.

Enhance and maintain test data required for executing regression test suites, ensuring data integrity and relevance.

Evaluate, Document, and Test software to verify functionality and performance according to specifications and requirements.

Design, Build, Execute and maintain automated testing suites and conduct analysis on data discrepancy and root causes in the testing results.

Maintain subject matter expertise for the systems under test and use that expertise to create, maintain, and extend the test case library.

Engage with the project team to understand requirements and contribute to project definition

Assist in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Collaborate and work effectively with PMs, CRSP developers, Business Analysts, QAs, and other stakeholders to strike the balance between ideal testing and available resources and establishing long-term quality targets.

Present effectively to superiors in areas of responsibility (ie.Test cases and test execution).

Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's Degree required. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science preferred.

At least 2 years of quality assurance or other relevant experience required.

Experience creating test plans, test cases, and test data required.

Working knowledge of financial research and investment concepts and terminology preferred.

Working knowledge of SQL required.

Working knowledge of statistical software packages - SAS, Python or other 3 rd party software preferred.

Experience with automated testing software preferred.

Exposure to PowerShell scripts or other shell script writing preferred.

Experience with GIT, JIRA and XRaypreferred.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.

Excellent interpersonal skills required.

Strong familiarity with the basic concepts of agile software development preferred.

Attention to detail, strong problem solving and organizational skills required.

Strong organization skills with the ability to coordinate multiple activities required.

Mastery of MS Office applications required.

Resume required.

LOCATION: 105 West Adams Street, 17 TH Floor, Chicago, IL
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: Associate Director, Quality Assurance
WORK SCHEDULE:
Index Team modification: Hours of operation are approximately 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Must be able to start either early morning (as early as 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM) or late morning (as late as 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM) at times to provide production coverage for the team. Some flexibility may be required. Extended hours may be required for applications support in the event of a production problem.
Salary Range: $83,922.00 - $109,099.00 USD Annually + Benefits
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

Top Skills

Python

SAS

SQL

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The Company

HQ: Chicago, IL

100 Employees

Hybrid Workplace

Year Founded: 1960

What We Do

CRSP provides data of the highest integrity and transparency to ensure the strongest foundation for economic forecasting, stock market research and financial analysis conducted by academic organizations, investment banks, brokerage firms, corporations, and government agencies. Our data has led to the transformation of the world of finance.

Why Work With Us

Our culture is truly unique. We employ and engage with some of the brightest minds in finance and seek to encourage the dissemination of knowledge and expansion of the frontier of financial research in a professional environment committed to mutual respect and teamwork.