Position: Senior Manual QA
Company: EPAM
Category: QA
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

About the customer 

Financial data and analytics provider. Serves more than 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. Enables the financial community to trade smarter and faster, overcome regulatory challenges, and scale intelligently. 
About the project 

Solution in scope is the infrastructure and software platform running on 2500+ physical servers and providing reliable, cost-effective solution for the collection and distribution of real-time, historical market data and value-add analytics for 200 000+ professional users. 

Requirements 

Required: 

5+ years of experience in software testing 
3+ years of testing of backend workflow systems 
Solid knowledge of at least one of scripting languages - Shell, Perl, Python and Awk 
Linux/Unix (at least one person on the team should be proficient)
Strong in writing SQL queries to perform database verification (where, grouping, joins) -- half of team should be proficient
Experience in using of Postman, SoapUI or similar for web services 
Understanding of XML & JSON formats 
Nice to have: 

Experience in using JMeter
Experience in networking - understanding of TCP / UDP / Multicast protocols 
Financial Markets Data domain knowledge  
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills  
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
Activities, Responsibilities

Testing product enhancements, new functionality: 
Technical Day 1’s changes - mandatory changes driven by exchange, commercials 
Integration of new content types, analytics enhancements 
Test cases creation, test cases execution 
Test data preparation, test automation using testing utilities 
Test results documentation 
What we are ready to do (We offer) 

Interesting business domain- Finance/Market Data 
The work in distributed team of highly proficient engineers with rich experience in software development 
Challenging tasks related to algorithms and performance optimization, data compression, big data