Manual QA Test Engineer

Position Summary

We are looking for a talented Manual QA Test Engineer capable to understand our company’s sophisticated technical applications to carry out testing before delivery to clients. This position also offers the opportunity to work in a highly talented and dynamic team of engineers to deliver widely used enterprise applications. It also offers the opportunity to participate in client implementation projects to implement automated testing using Esprow’s applications. The job requires the ability to work in a small, distributed team environment and to deliver on-time and on-quality results. The position may require from time to time to help resolving clients’ technical support requests by email and web meetings.

Position Responsibilities:

• Contribute to QA testing efforts of Esprow’s products carry out testing of new product features and liaising with the project manager and development teams to resolve issues before release to clients.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases. If necessary, communicate with internal teams or clients to identify system requirements and expected system behaviour.
• Analyse test results to ensure quality of the software and recommend preventive and corrective actions.
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience with manual and/or automated QA testing of desktop and web applications.
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans and executing tests before product releases.
• Fluent English speaking and writing skills.
• Bachelor's/College Degree, Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
   

Bonus Skills (optional, but would be a plus):

• Knowledge of the FIX protocol and experience with FIX testing tools.
• Familiarity with messaging protocol concepts such as request/reply, subscriptions, dictionaries, message structure, transports (at least TCP), and so on.
• Customer support related experience.
   

Ideal Personality:

• A mature person who can be trusted and who will genuinely care about his job and responsibilities.
• Desire to achieve high-quality results, keep deadlines, and help the company and its clients succeed.
• Able to work independently and proactively and think outside the box.
• Exceptional attention to details.
• A positive personality and attitude – ability to derive satisfaction and take pride in their job.
• Someone who can bring external knowledge to the team and seeks to continually improve themselves.
   

Benefits You Will Enjoy:

• Five-day working week (9am to 6pm) with full-remote possibility.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual salary review.
• Professional, talented, and friendly team.
• Job satisfaction is a key focus of the company culture.
• Excellent career path in a fast-growing technology company within global markets.
• Opportunity to take more responsibility and gain experience within the financial markets industry.

About Esprow

Esprow is a highly innovative and fast-growing company with some of the world’s highest profile companies as our clients. Working with us, you will be exposed to innovative and cutting-edge technologies and be heavily involved throughout the application development and client support. Our Esprow Enterprise Testing Platform (ETP) is unique in the market of automated certification, testing, and simulation of financial trading solutions. With presence in New York, Singapore, Tokyo, and India, we deliver our technology to clients across the globe. You will have the opportunity be exposed to the most challenging and high-profile working environments.

Degree of Autonomy & Level of Authority

Working under the supervision of the Project Manager and able to undertake the necessary work very much independently once it’s scoped out. We have an open, friendly environment with minimal bureaucracy, where everyone gets involved with different aspects of the technology and is free to voice their opinion.