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Quality Assurance Engineer (Desktop Solutions)

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on ensuring the quality of CFRA's desktop solutions software through rigorous testing. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to develop and execute tests, enhancing the performance and security of web products and APIs.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in testing enterprise websites using tools like Cypress or Selenium.
  • 5+ years of experience in testing APIs using tools like Postman or SoapUI.
  • 2+ years of experience validating API responses and writing SQL queries from relational databases.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of security testing principles and best practices for APIs.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with developers, architects, and stakeholders to design test plans and strategies for web products and API testing on AWS.
  • Develop comprehensive test cases for web products and API testing, ensuring thorough test coverage.
  • Implement automated tests for web products and APIs using tools like Cypress, Postman, or Selenium.
  • Conduct regression and performance testing to maintain the overall quality of web products and APIs.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Motivational Skills
  • Collaboration

About the company

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CFRA Research

  • Financial Services
  • SME
  • 51–200
CFRA is a global leader in financial intelligence solutions and insights. Our experienced team of experts delivers timely and actionable analysis across global markets and multiple research disciplines, ensuring you always have our most up-to-date views, analysis, and data at your fingertips so you can make smarter and faster decisions. Founded as the Center for Financial Research and Analysis in 1994, today our company is simply known as CFRA. Our proprietary approach blends a unique mix of fundamental equity, forensic accounting, fund, public policy and technical research with data, analytics and next-gen technology to arm clients with the financial intelligence required to meet their business and investing goals. We are fiercely independent, we are client obsessed, and our mission is simply to be the most trusted global source of independent financial intelligence and innovation.

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Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer will be responsible for planning, developing, and executing tests for 
CFRA’s desktop solutions software. The responsibilities include designing and implementing 
tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests to ensure software runs efficiently 
and meets client needs, while at the same time being secure, scalable, and cost-effective. We are 
looking for candidates that value collaboration with colleagues and having an immediate, 
tangible impact for a leading global independent financial insights and data company. 
Key Responsibilities
  • Test Planning: Collaborate with developers, architects, and stakeholders to understand web products and API requirements and design test plans and strategies for web products and API testing on AWS. 
  • Test Case Development: Develop comprehensive test cases for web products and API testing, covering functional, non-functional, and edge cases, ensuring thorough test 
    coverage. 
  • Test Automation: Implement automated tests for web products and APIs using tools like 
    Cypress, Postman, Selenium, or tools such as Jenkins to improve testing efficiency and 
    coverage. 
  • Regression Testing: Conduct regression testing to ensure that changes to web products 
    and APIs do not introduce new bugs or regressions, maintaining the overall quality of 
    the web products and APIs. 
  • Performance Testing: Conduct performance testing of web products and APIs using 
    automated testing tool like Cypress and Postman and AWS tools like AWS X-Ray, to 
    evaluate API performance under different loads and conditions. 
  • Security Testing: Perform security testing of APIs to identify vulnerabilities and ensure 
    compliance with security best practices and standards. 
  • API Gateway Testing: Test API gateway configurations and integrations to ensure proper 
    routing, transformation, and security of API requests and responses. 
  • Error Handling Testing: Test error handling mechanisms of web products and APIs to 
    ensure they return appropriate error codes and messages in case of failures or invalid 
    requests. 
  • Documentation: Document test plans, test cases, and test results, and collaborate with 
    developers to ensure issues are properly documented and tracked. 
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders to 
    resolve issues and improve the quality of web products and APIs, following an Agile 
    development process.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest trends, tools, and technologies 
    related to API testing and quality assurance, and continuously improve testing processes 
    and methodologies. 
  • Communication: Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, 
    providing clear and concise feedback on the quality of APIs and any issues found during 
    testing

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
  • Web Testing: 5+ years of experience and proficiency in testing enterprise web sites using tools like Cypress or Selenium, with a focus on functional, non-functional, and security 
    testing, and a strong understanding of web technologies and standards. 
  • API Testing: 5+ years of experience and proficiency in testing APIs using tools like 
    Postman, SoapUI, or Selenium, with a focus on functional, non-functional, and security 
    testing, and a strong understanding of API technologies and standards.
  • SQL: 2+ years of experiencing validating API responses and writing SQL queries from 
    relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. 
  • AWS Services: Familiarity with AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, 
    AWS IAM, RDS, AWS CloudWatch, OpenSearch, S3, and others, and experience in testing 
    web products and APIs deployed on AWS infrastructure. 
  • Testing Automation: Experience in implementing automated tests for APIs using tools 
    like Cypress, Postman, Selenium, or AWS testing tools, to improve testing efficiency and 
    coverage. 
     Performance Testing: Experience in performance testing of APIs using tools like Apache 
    JMeter, Gatling, or AWS X-Ray, to evaluate API performance under different loads and 
    conditions. 
  • Security Testing: Knowledge of security testing principles and best practices for APIs, 
    including authentication, authorization, encryption, and compliance with security 
    standards like OWASP. 
  • Testing Methodologies: Familiarity with testing methodologies such as Agile testing, 
    Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and ability to 
    work in Agile development environments. 
  • Problem-solving Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze 
    complex issues, identify root causes, and propose effective solutions to ensure the 
    quality and reliability of web products and APIs. 
  • Documentation: Ability to create and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and 
    test reports, and communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders. 
  • Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, DevOps engineers, and 
    other stakeholders, to resolve issues and improve the quality of web products and APIs. 
  • Continuous Learning: A commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with 
    the latest trends, tools, and technologies related to web product and API testing and 
    AWS services. 
  • Bachelor's Degree: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a 
    related field is often preferred, although equivalent experience and certifications can also 
    be valuable


Benefits
  • 21 days of Annual Vacation
  • 8 sick days
  • 6 casual days
  • 1 paid Volunteer Day
  • Medical, Accidental & Term Life Insurance
  • Telehealth, OPD
  • Competitive pay
  • Annual Performance Bonus

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