The Team: Fueling the technologies that drive our products and support our company's infrastructure, the Technology team consists of talented developers, network architects, and IT experts who help make technology one of Morningstar’s core strengths. Though our technologists represent a range of skills and knowledge bases, they all view technology as a craft and care deeply about creating positive user experiences. From Agile methodologies to mobile applications, to software as a service (SaaS) delivered from our private cloud, we push technology's boundaries to build scalable, elegant solutions that help investors reach their financial goals.

The Role: As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will collaborate with the project managers, developers, and product managers to create test plans and scripts as well as execute testing projects. You will be involved in technology projects for the development and enhancement of various Morningstar products or services from the beginning to ensure the highest level of quality. You will report to a quality assurance manager for direction on the technology projects assigned to you.

We have several openings for Quality Assurance Engineer across multiple teams requiring varying types of expertise in manual or automated testing. These positions are based in our Chicago office.

Responsibilities

• Acts as guardian of software quality.

• Participates in the design, development, and implementation of software quality standards and procedures to maintain high levels of software quality and product   

  reliability.

• Reviews product business and technical specs with ability to provide feedback.

• Develop test plans, scripts, and other documentation for various functional and non-functional testing activities.

• Executes manual, automated, and/or scenario-based testing on multiple platforms.

• Records testing defects per defect tracking process set by our QA organization.

• Works closely with the development team to diagnose issues, resolve defects, and ensure that product releases follow project specifications.

• Be proactive on following through testing progress to ensure minimum technical debt.

• Monitors product defects and maintain proper QA documentation.

• Works with QA team and team leads to prepares quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends in software development and production.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or a similar field is required.

• Minimum 2.5 years of working experience with knowledge of established QA practices and the software development life cycle is required.

• Strong attention to detail, excellent verbal, written, and analytical skills.

• Ability to multitask and manage several projects at any given time.

• Ability to collaborate, act as a team player, communicate across various layers of the organization, and work in cross-functional distributed teams.

• Self-motivated and the ability to work effectively with limited guidance when necessary.

• Financial or investment knowledge is a plus.

We are looking for candidates with a minimum of two of the following skillsets: SQL, SoapUI Pro or other types of web services testing, XML, Groovy, JavaScript, data

warehouse/ETL/Metadata testing, or Security Testing.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.