QA Automation Lead/Engineer

Jacobs Levy Equity Management, located in Florham Park, NJ, is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Lead or Engineer to support quality assurance in applications. This role is to lead or assist in the automation and improvement in the testing of application systems that support our proprietary quantitative investment strategies.

Primary Responsibilities

The QA Lead will be responsible for leading and building the QA team; the QA Engineer will contribute towards achieving the team’s goals. The successful candidate will be responsible for testing software applications and overseeing their change management processes in the firm, including the following:

• Develop QA test automation framework including evaluating automation test tools and proof of concepts
• Perform hands-on software quality assurance and automation testing to ensure specifications are met
• Maintain the test data for automation deliverables and assist in writing efficient, reusable automated test plans/cases
• Prepare the necessary data to cover various automation scenarios and write SQL scripts to verify the database updates, insertion and deletion of the records
• Responsible for integrating and improving the change management processes including bug tracking, source control, CI/CD, and release management
• Manage and automate software (C++, .Net, C#) deployment using Git, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, etc.

Requirements

The role requires the following of the successful candidate:

• Master’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience of Software Quality Automation
• Working knowledge with bug tracking, source control, build CI/CD automation, release management & deployment automation solutions
• Experience in creating, maintaining, and executing automated test scripts at the code level; Experience with Google Test or Microsoft Unit test tools is a plus
• Be able to work within an Agile environment, processes, and tools
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across Development, QA, Operations, and cross functional teams
• Prior experience in C++ and/or C# is a plus
• Good communication skills and the ability to work well in a team

The culture at Jacobs Levy emanates from our founders’ entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative relationship, and dedication to research. Ours is an innovative, team-oriented organization that welcomes intellectual curiosity, outside-the-box thinking, and practical problem solving. We seek innovative professionals who want to grow and learn while helping to drive the success of the firm.