QA Tester- Assistant Vice President
New York, NY

Job Description

QA Tester- Assistant Vice President

Job ID: 3188632 Full/Part-Time: Full-time Regular/Temporary: Regular Listed: 2019-06-20 Location: New York, United States of America

Technology

Our technology teams are responsible for the bank's entire information technology infrastructure. They develop and maintain the software required to support the bank's business. The teams work closely with the businesses and other infrastructure units to modernise the bank's IT systems to reduce complexity, risk and enable business growth.

With award-winning mobile banking apps and trading systems, our technology helps Deutsche Bank deliver high-quality products to clients. We make sure that the phones and computers work and that emails are delivered - but we also develop solutions that help our people share their knowledge, expertise and passion for our business.

Deutsche Bank sees itself as a technology-driven company that can gain market share with new, cutting-edge ideas. The ambition is to be a leader in the area of digitalisation.

We are making investments into digital technology across all businesses to enhance the client experience, harness the power of data, and strengthen efficiency and controls by increasing automation. We are also collaborating with external partners such as start-ups, FinTechs, and technology specialists worldwide to discover and implement innovative solutions for our clients.

Deutsche Bank has become one of the first financial institutions to establish a professional research and development department, including capabilities such as four innovation labs and the digital factory in Frankfurt.

Join us here, and you'll constantly be looking ahead. We'll look to you to capitalise on new technological trends that can reshape our business and deliver value for our clients, whilst still meeting the demands of customers, regulators and the markets.

Position Overview

Job Title: QA Engineer

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: New York, NY

About Deutsche Bank

We are Germany's leading bank with strong positions in Europe and significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. We're driving growth through our strong client franchise, investing heavily in digital technologies, prioritizing long-term success over short-term gains, and serving society with ambition and integrity. We serve our clients' real economic needs in commercial and investment banking, retail banking and transaction banking, and provide ground-breaking products and services in asset and wealth management. That means a career packed with opportunities to grow and the chance to shape the future of our clients.

Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Test Engineer

A Passion to Perform. It's what drives us. More than a claim, this describes the way we do business. We're committed to being the best financial services provider in the world, balancing passion with precision to deliver superior solutions for our clients. This is made possible by our people: agile minds, able to see beyond the obvious and act effectively in an ever-changing global business landscape. As you'll discover, our culture supports this. Diverse, international and shaped by a variety of different perspectives, we're driven by a shared sense of purpose. At every level agile thinking is nurtured. And at every level agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support and opportunities to excel.

Business Description

With 80,000 employees and offices in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank is committed to being the best financial services provider in the world. Deutsche Bank is an aspirational employer, with the platform to lift careers to the next level. We foster a diverse, inclusive environment that encourages new ideas.

We are offering a unique opportunity to be part of the team that is shaping this transformation and implementing a large array of career defining change with interesting technology and working with a high performing team.

Treasury Technology is a new Function within Corporate Technology that drives the change agenda for Group Treasury and parts of Finance. Treasury Technology is developing a large suite of new applications, portfolio of change, whilst also generating significant revenue for Deutsche Bank, is primarily Regulatory driven - enabling a range of critical disclosures for Liquidity, Funding, Capital and Collateral. Much of this infrastructure is supporting daily processes and Regulatory disclosures and therefore demands a step-change in application functionality, reporting and data sourcing.

Treasury Technology manage a portfolio of applications covering a range of Treasury Functions including Liquidity Risk Management, Asset Liability Management, Funds Transfer Pricing and Portfolio Management.

Job Overview & Typical Profile

Job Overview

Deutsche Bank is looking for an experienced, motivated QA Test Engineer. This is a hands on role requiring strong technical skills in various automation frameworks and a good understanding of the Testing Practices to support the growth and testing of the Liquidity Reporting Application with the ability to take decisive and timely action even under high pressure.

Typical Profile

You are expected to have professional QA experience on significant technology initiatives across complex organizations.

You should have a career history which demonstrates a track record of successful delivery balancing a structured approach with pragmatism. They should be able to demonstrate an approach which appropriately balances time to market, quality and cost.

You should have great communication skills and show adaptability of communication to suit the audience.

Prior experience working for a major global Investment Bank (ideally within a Treasury function) would be an advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

* Understand the programme of work and current state technical landscape within Treasury
* Accountable for ensuring that the software delivered meets functional and non-functional requirements
* Accountable for assisting IT application team in achieving quality product by identifying defects and deficiencies early and providing MIS for continuously improving the development and testing process
* Accountable for ensuring that the software delivered adheres to the architectural specifications
* Collaborate and developers and architects to deliver component designs
* Facilitate high level estimating and release planning
* Stakeholder communication

Education / Qualifications:

* Degree from an accredited college or university (or equivalent certification and/or relevant work experience)
* Any other Testing Related certifications

QA Engineering Experience

Experience in the following areas:

* A thorough understanding of quality assurance principles
* Good working knowledge of the use of Jira / Defect Management tools
* Strong analytical skills, considers alternatives and willing to bring these up within team meetings as appropriate rather than accepting the status quo
* Good working Knowledge of Software Versioning. i.e. Git Flow
* Test planning, designing, and test strategy/case/script creation and execution
* Ability to Run / Execute Reports / Create Ad-Hoc Reports in Business Objects / Tableau
* Experience working in an agile environment
* Experience with integration & regressions testing and coordination with supporting systems
* Experience working in a test driven development domain
* Good Understanding of Automated testing tools (Rational Robot, Silktest, WinRunner, HP UFT, QuickTest Pro, RIATest, Green Hat etc)
* Knowledge of white/black box level testing, system and performance testing of applications using industry standard practices and tools

Technical Experience

Mandatory Skills:

* Experience in software development, testing and support with hands-on testing
* Strong experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies
* Ability to write Oracle SQL to extract and fabricate data in database
* Comfortable with large data sets and querying data
* Comfortable in Maintaining & Executing Tests using JUnit
* Good understanding of ETL Testing
* Ability to Run / Execute Reports / Create Ad-Hoc Reports in Business Objects / Tableau
* Have a reasonable understanding of Big Data infrastructure

Industry / Domain Experience

Hands-on knowledge of enterprise technology platforms supporting the Finance, Risk and Treasury domains would be an advantage. For example:

* Knowledge of the Finance/controlling domain and end-to-end workflow for a banking & trading businesses
* Knowledge of Treasury: liquidity, funding, capital and collateral; and their management in a large financial institution
* Knowledge of the investment banking, sales & trading, asset management and similar industries is a strong advantage

Clear Thought & Leadership:

* A mindset built on simplicity
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment with competing and alternating priorities with a constant focus on delivery
* Logical & structured approach to problem-solving in both near-term (tactical) and mid-long term (strategic) horizons
* Ability to take decisive and timely action even under high pressure

Communication:

* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Capability to guide and influence decision making with business stakeholders
* Good Experience in providing input to the project plan/release plan, defect/change management processes, systems integration, testing tools and processes

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