Associate Director

About The Role
OSTTRA India
The Role:
Associate Director - SQA Engineer

The Team:
The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Capital Markets Technology professionals, who build, support and protect the applications that operate our network. The Processing Testing group's primary focus is on the testing phase of the product development cycle. The group also has a responsibility to champion quality and process improvements in the delivery of all applications that will be on-boarded on new (micro-services based) platforms. Platforms are extensively using CD models and cutting-edge technologies viz Git, OpenShift, Elastic Search, Python, Cucumber Framework, Protractor Framework.

The strategic direction is the global harmonization of this platform and on-board various applications across the BU on this. QA group is technically supporting a cross functional team through an elaborated QA Infra and automation and performance test suite.

The Impact: Together
, we build, support, protect and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets.

What's In It For You
Works as a part of QA team with members in New York and London as well as Developers, technical architects, product staff and Business analysts to flush out requirements and create test plans, test scenarios, test cases and automation of test cases and create detailed test reports. Work with technical architects, infrastructure team to set up QA environments and establish required infrastructure for them. Initially the role is more of an Individual contributor and then the expectations would be to manage a small team to start with.

A good understanding of BDD and financial background is preferable as the individual will liaise with technology leads, development teams, Business Analysts, Product Development, Product Managers, Operations/Evaluators and application support teams.

This role presents an excellent opportunity to be part of an agile team based out of India, collaborating with colleagues across multiple regions globally, with a strong focus on delivering value through self-service.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for test planning & strategy for all testing engagements & opportunities (functional/automation)
• Conceptualize solutions, present & deliver.
• Suggest process improvement, risk management, people management, testing delivery defining KPI's & KRA's
• Strong with numbers, dashboards and presentations
• Work closely with product team to understand the requirements from business perspective.
• Coordinate with Product and QA teams to ensure the specifications are implemented in Gherkin format and thus easier implementation to BDD automation framework.
• Design and write maintainable automated feature scripts using Java, Cucumber/Gherkin, as well as manual tests as required.
• Core delivery to Execute automated and functional test cases, review test results and report defects.
• Able to work as a domain SME for the team and groom other team members on domain/functional aspects.
• Extensive coordination with product and Dev team on requirement gaps and functional issues resolution
• Manage the junior testers & their work allocation & active involvement in running UAT with business.
• Coordination with Performance test team to provide the necessary functional details.

What We're Looking For

• University Graduate with a Computer Science or an Engineering degree.
• Strong Background in Testing Methodology
• 12-17 Years in a structured testing organization.
• Good exposure of working in agile environment and geographically distributed teams.
• In-depth knowledge of OTC Derivatives, Trades lifecycle, Regulatory/Compliance, Front - end trade booking applications.
• Understanding of BDD test framework is a plus.
• Understanding & Hands-on experience of Investment Banking Domain
• Good understanding of Financial Products
• Understanding of schema designing, XML messaging/MQ's & assisting BA functions
• Trade Lifecycle & Workflow Understanding
• A programming experience in Java
• Testing Certifications – ISTQB
• Domain Certifications - NCFM, CFA Foundation
• Understanding on trade, ref & market Data platforms would be an added advantage.

The Location:
Gurgaon, India

About Company Statement
OSTTRA is a market leader in derivatives post-trade processing, bringing innovation, expertise, processes and networks together to solve the post-trade challenges of global financial markets. OSTTRA operates cross-asset post-trade processing networks, providing a proven suite of Credit Risk, Trade Workflow and Optimisation services. Together these solutions streamline post-trade workflows, enabling firms to connect to counterparties and utilities, manage credit risk, reduce operational risk and optimise processing to drive post-trade efficiencies.

OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years: MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset. These businesses have an exemplary track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure and bring together an established community of market participants comprising all trading relationships and paradigms, connected using powerful integration and transformation capabilities.

About OSTTRA
Candidates should note that OSTTRA is an independent firm, jointly owned by S&P Global and CME Group. As part of the joint venture, S&P Global provides recruitment services to OSTTRA - however, successful candidates will be interviewed and directly employed by OSTTRA, joining our global team of more than 1,200 post trade experts.
OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years: MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset. OSTTRA is a joint venture, owned 50/50 by S&P Global and CME Group.

With an outstanding track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure, our combined network connects thousands of market participants to streamline end to end workflows - from trade capture at the point of execution, through portfolio optimization, to clearing and settlement.

Joining the OSTTRA team is a unique opportunity to help build a bold new business with an outstanding heritage in financial technology, playing a central role in supporting global financial markets.

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Location:
Gurgaon, Haryana, India