Bloomberg

Senior QA Analyst - ET Quality Engineering

Bloomberg$135K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in financial services, preferably in financial markets/electronic trading.
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Strong organization and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated collaboration and problem-solving abilities across teams.
  • Genuine passion for software testing and quality delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Design comprehensive test strategies and plans focusing on product quality.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to validate feature requirements.
  • Execute both manual and automated testing to ensure thorough coverage.
  • Own the full testing lifecycle for trading products including various testing types.
  • Validate system performance and resiliency under different conditions.
  • Work with engineering to implement automated testing and integrate feature metrics.
  • Proactively identify communication risks and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Assess product usability and quality, providing recommendations for improvement.
  • Mentor team members on testing best practices and domain expertise.
  • Foster relationships with stakeholders to align on quality objectives.
  • Contribute to continual improvements in testing and deployment processes.

Benefits

  • Generous benefits plan including paid holidays and time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Life insurance and wellness programs available.
Full Job Description
Description & Requirements

Description & Requirements

The Electronic Trading Quality Engineering (ETQE) Team is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to design and execute tests to deliver high-quality software at all stages of the SDLC and post-deployment. You will work closely with Product and Application Engineers to feature test and take ownership of both end-to-end feature testing of client trading workflows.

What you'll do

  • Test Strategy & Planning: Design accurate, thorough test strategies and plans, leveraging deep domain, regulatory, and technical expertise to ensure superior product quality.
  • Feature & Requirements Validation: Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to understand functional requirements, actively contributing to and constructively challenging them when appropriate.
  • Manual & Automated Testing: Execute testing across manual and automated methodologies, ensuring robust coverage across workflows.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Take responsibility for the full testing lifecycle of trading products, including feature, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
  • Operational Resiliency: Validate system resiliency by testing performance, load, concurrency, edge cases, and race conditions.
  • Automation & Metrics: Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver automated testing, integrate feature usage metrics, and align automated test coverage with risk areas.
  • Risk & Communication: Proactively identify risks, communicate them clearly, and work with stakeholders on mitigation strategies.
  • Usability & Quality: Assess product quality from an end-user perspective, recommending enhancements that improve usability and client experience.
  • Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor team members on domain expertise, testing processes, usability, and End-to-End testing best practices.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong relationships across Product, Engineering, and external clients/systems to drive alignment on quality goals.
  • Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the broader vision of continuous testing and continuous deployment.


You'll need to have

  • 4+ years of relevant work experience in the financial services industry, ideally in financial markets and/or electronic trading.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Excellent organization and communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholder teams.
  • Passion for testing and delivering quality software at speed.


We'd love to see

  • Experience testing electronic trading workflows.
  • Knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
  • Experience with automated backend and UI testing frameworks.
  • Project Management experience
  • Working directly with external clients


ENTPET

Salary Range = 135,000 - 160,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service (Bloomberg News), a global television network (Bloomberg Television), digital websites, a radio station (WBBR), subscription-only newsletters, and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, and Bloomberg Pursuits.
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