Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (Calypso)

Our large financial company is looking for a contract Lead Calypso Quality Assurance Engineer . This is a remote contract position (client is in San Francisco, CA)

Contract Duration: 6-Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of Software Quality Assurance experience in agile development environments in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience.
• Working knowledge of Financial Services domain and Capital Markets with Front Office/Back Office operational is required.
• Experience working with Agile/SAFe methodology.
• Experience with test automation and framework tools (i.e. UFT, Selenium, RPA) or equivalent automation skills that proves ability to debug automation code.
• Experience with industry standard testing and defect management tools.
• Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).
• Strong time management skills and ability to juggle priorities with a history of meeting commitments.
• Self-motivated individual who takes the initiative to thoroughly understand existing business processes, system integrations, and dependencies.
• Ability to quickly grasp business concepts, objectives, and processes to establish trust and credibility with stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso QA capacity, preferable involved in Calypso Upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion
• In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.
• Experience with Calypso versions 16.1 onwards.
• Experience with Calypso Hedge Accounting Module.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities

• Acts as a team lead of a Quality Assurance team and supports the QA vision to deliver consistent and value-added testing solutions that align with business needs/goals.
• Adheres to QA standards, applies QA methodology, develops test strategies, and ensures robust repeatable, maintainable, regression for the Calypso platform.
• Collaborates with technical and business teams and communicates risks and issues to ensure high quality solutions
• Maintains awareness and recommends best industry practices to improve overall QA processes and enhance efficiency.
• Lead QA efforts on Calypso initiatives and follow scaled Agile best practices.
• Lead in requirement analysis, design and development phases and determine testing approach for the Calypso platform.
• Leverage extensive Calypso Domain expertise to develop test plan and provide direction to the QA team for test case authoring and execution.
• Drive test automation hand-off practice and support the development of test cases in manner designed for automation (e.g. using dynamic data), and thereby significantly reduce if not eliminate manual testing
• Lead the test case peer review process and support the maintenance of authored test cases.
• Lead the test execution of developed solutions and deliver test reports.
• Types of testing include smoke, system, integration, regression (manual and automated), data/test-driven, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop QA close-out deliverables including requirement traceability matrix and test acceptance report to support go/no-go decision.
• Collaborate with Test Automation team to develop, optimize and enhance automated regression test suites, and coordinate automated test execution.
• Work with Business users to create and maintain test data for functional and regression testing.
• Collaborate with the Calypso development team and test automation team to evaluate new test automation tools and solutions for Calypso API and functional regression testing.
• Lead defect triage and collaborate with business partners, internal, and/or external implementation partners on system failures, root cause analysis, and track defects to closure.