Quality Assurance Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Execute functional, integration, and regression tests based on test cases, user stories, and specifications for APL applications and related services.
• Design and update test cases and test data under guidance from senior QA analysts and leads, ensuring clear steps, expected results, and traceability to requirements.
• Log, track, and retest defects in JIRA (or equivalent), providing clear reproduction steps, impact details, and test evidence (screenshots, logs, data extracts).
• Validate data and calculations using SQL or other tools to confirm portfolio positions, trades, fees, and reports are accurate across systems.
• Participate in System Integration Testing (SIT) cycles, executing end‑to‑end scenarios that span APL, upstream channels, downstream systems, and operations workflows.
• Support release and deployment cycles by running smoke tests, sanity checks, and targeted regression in lower and production‑like environments.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product, and operations to clarify requirements, understand changes, and reproduce client or production issues.
• Maintain QA documentation including test plans, test runs, test evidence, and sign‑off notes as required by internal quality and audit standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by suggesting test coverage enhancements, reusable test data sets, and small process improvements within the QA team.
• Learn and deepen domain knowledge in managed accounts, portfolio management, trading, and APL-specific workflows, applying that knowledge in day‑to‑day testing.

Required Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in software testing or quality assurance for enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals (test case design, boundary/negative testing, regression, defect lifecycle).
• Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Zephyr/Xray, TestRail, or similar).
• Basic to intermediate SQL skills for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Ability to read and interpret requirements, user stories, and specifications, and translate them into test conditions and cases.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in documenting test results and defects.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working with distributed teams and multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, wealth management, or capital markets domains.
• Exposure to portfolio management, trading, reconciliation, fees/billing, or performance reporting workflows.
• Familiarity with test automation concepts or tools (e.g., Selenium, API testing), even if primary focus is manual/system testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments (sprint ceremonies, story grooming, definition of done, etc.).