Quality Assurance Specialist

The Quality Manager ensures that appropriate quality management techniques are applied and provides expert advice, using quality standards to review performance, conduct audits and report on outputs.

Field of activity:

Quality Assurance serves as a final quality gateway for the Trading System Software before customers will get first access to fixes, enhancements, changes, or new releases of Trading System Software in a Member Simulation.

Quality Assurance takes care of appropriate measures to achieve high quality of the Software from a functional, technical and performance perspective after completion of testing from the software development teams. Quality Assurance also caters for decision taking for installing the fixes, enhancements, changes, or new releases of the Trading System Software in Simulation and/or Production Environments.
Quality Assurance also acts as a final quality gateway for the Theoretical Price Engine System which is an important system in the exchange landscape. It calculates Theoretical prices for future and option products which are used in various functionalities in trading system and risk system.

Task and responsibilities:

• Plan and perform functional, technical and performance testing of trading software and theoretical price engine.
• Self-organization of software testing in terms of responsibilities, contents, and schedule.
• Creation and updating of test models and scripts for test automation.
• Close cooperation with functional and operation teams for software testing.
• Support of ad hoc inquiries for simulation and production.

Qualifications/required skills:

• University degree in Economics, (Financial) Mathematics, Computer Science or any other quantitative discipline.
• Expertise for testing of software from a functional, technical and performance perspective.
• Strong expertise in option pricing models.
• Strong expertise on functionality of derivatives markets.
• Strong communication skills and lateral thinking.
• Experience in scripting for test, test automation.
• Experience in python scripting is preferred.
• High degree of teamwork and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Optional skills:

Additionally, you need to be a team player, highly motivated, flexible and have a good working knowledge of MS Office applications.

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