Quality Assurance Engineer I
NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage FinTech company with an award-winning platform and over 1 million users. We are building products and services which empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, comfortable and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.
Are you an innovative QA engineer looking to make your mark working for a financial services company? Do you want to be part of the team that is transforming the online trading industry? NinjaTrader is seeking an experienced and talented QA Engineer who wants to make a difference by pushing the limits of technology. This candidate will be working closely with our technology team and reporting to the QA Manager. We are building state-of-the-art solutions for online futures trading by challenging ourselves to deliver a creative, intuitive, and scalable user experience to our customers. Successful candidates will be talented technicians and innovative thinkers who are driven to make a difference and help change an industry long held back by yesterday’s technology.
In this role, you will:
- Perform requirement analysis and create test scenarios from acceptance criteria
- Perform UAT and End-to-End System Integration testing in test, staging, and production environments
- Proactively work with the development team to troubleshoot application-related issues
- Work in collaboration with SRE to set up test and staging environment in the cloud
- Analyze manual and automated test results and report issues promptly
- Work with the customer support team and product owner to perform UAT tasks as assigned
- Perform test responsibilities with minimal supervision
- Work closely with SET to build an automation framework for functional and non-functional tests
- Participate in routine test case review process with team members and keep optimal functional test coverage
- Maintain test suite by analyzing duplicate and obsolete tests
- Collaborate with and mentor other QA team members, developers, and SREs on functional and integration testing setup and execution
- Work in collaboration with various team members to automate product deployment checkout and build certification processes in various environments
- Assist with test documentation, UAT, production deployment checkouts, and triaging issues
- Perform gap and root cause analysis to ensure overall product quality
Key Position Requirements
- 1 to 2 years of relevant experience in QA testing or able to demonstrate solid domain knowledge of NinjaTrader products
- Proficient in testing GUI applications, API services, and relational or NoSQL databases
- Demonstrate good communication, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with recreating and troubleshooting customer issues
- Basic understanding of testing applications over web-browser, mobile device, or desktop app
- Familiar with version control systems like Git and Github Actions
- Familiar with command-line interface tools
- Demonstrate a good understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, and WebSocket
Bonus Points For:
- Familiarity with writing tests in Cucumber, Appium, BDD, or TDD methodologies is a plus
- Familiar with Jira or similar defect management tools
- A basic understanding of cloud-based technologies is a big plus
- Financial trading systems experience is a big plus
- Proactively work with team members for successful project delivery
Our Core Benefits Include:
- 15 days PTO per year
- 7 paid holidays annually
- 401k with Company Match
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
- And more!
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
