ThinkMarkets is a global online brokerage firm, specializing in providing multi-asset trading solutions to thousands of clients around the world. With our flagship ThinkTrader platform, we allow our clients to trade the world 24-hours a day. Our mission is to disrupt the brokerage industry by allowing access to global markets and thousands of products to allow our clients to trade the world in the palm of their hand. We use the latest technologies to give traders seamless access to our proprietary trading platforms. Our Chicago office is in the heart of the financial district in the Loop, and is made up by our Leadership, IT, Analytics, and R&D teams.
We are seeking a QA Engineer to join our rapidly growing global workforce in Chicago. The key focus will lie on leveraging new technologies and tools to automate functional and regression tests as well as managing the QA process. In this role, you will be collaborating with project managers, engineers, and developers working on different layers of our business. A successful candidate will possess an unparalleled commitment to user experience, as well as a sophisticated approach to testing and general commitment to quality of the customer facing as well as internal applications.
Responsibilities:
- Work alongside project/product managers, designers, and other engineers in creating and maintaining functional and regression test suites
- Discover, report, and track defects for all ThinkMarkets applications
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, cases, and data sets
- Review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics
- Develop and maintain regression and performance test suites for all applications
- Understand and enforce shared ownership of our product vision
- Write detailed testing automation scripts to increase the efficiency of our deployment pipelines
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in modern application testing using standard test frameworks
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a relevant field
- Experience developing, documenting, and executing test plans, including negative testing, regression testing, and identification of boundary conditions
- Experience with application performance testing and the relevant tools
- Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium, Postman, Loadrunner, Zephyr, Qmetry, etc.
- Strong familiarity with agile development tools such as GIT, JIRA, Jenkins is a must
- Working knowledge of RESTful Web-Services, JSON, networking protocols and best practices for promoting leading application performance
- Familiarity with cloud APIs, third party API integrations and test automation related to those integrations
Our Benefit Offerings:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage available
- Employer-Paid Short-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Pre-Tax Transit deduction options
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- 401k and Roth 401k (retirement planning) options available and competitive company match
- Generous Paid Holidays
- Monthly gym reimbursement
- Fresh beverages and snacks in office