FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access
to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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Location: NYC Hybrid
Your Team's Impact
This role is at LiquidityBook, a company recently acquired by FactSet. LiquidityBook is a SaaS trading technology which offers OMS, EMS, and PMS solutions for buy and sell side clients. This means, LiquidityBook writes software that traders log into every day to trade stocks and view the impact of their trades. We are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to help build upon the burgeoning QA team at LiquidityBook. This candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues, implement testing strategies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes. It is a highly technical role and most days will require direct contributions to the automation code base. This role will report directly to the head of Quality Assurance.
What You'll Do
- Create manual test plans and test cases for our different product offerings
- Execute these tests at different stages of the release cycle
- Help build and maintain an automation test suite written in Java with TestNG framework
- Expand QA environments which encompass all of our trading capabilities
- Detail new bugs and features for development
- Test high-risk tickets from dev in a controlled staging environment
What We're Looking For
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, or finance-related field
- 0-3 years of experience in QA/Dev or as a technical resource
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- A strong technological background
- An intermediate understanding of at least one coding language
- Ability to quickly learn and grasp new concepts
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Desired Skills
- Engineering work for a finance company
- A thorough understanding of capital markets and trade lifecycles
- Bug tracking (preferably Jira)
- Experience with test automation
- Proficiency in testing methodologies
- Experience with coding languages/frameworks such as Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, TestNG, Selenium
What's In It For You
At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:
- The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
- Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
- Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
- A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
- Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
- Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
Learn more about our benefits here.
The budgeted salary range for this position in the state of New York is $60,000 - $75,000.
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify
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What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year.
As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
