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Quality Assurance Analyst - Risk Clearing Systems - 6079

Company Horizon Technology Partners, Inc.
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 9/15/2009
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Title:      Quality Assurance Analyst - Risk Clearing Systems
Skills:     Quality Assurance Analyst w/functional knowledge of Risk Management tools for Portfolio Analysis (Must have knowledge of SPAN, option pricing, Monte Carlo, Black Scholes model's): QTP, Winrunner, UNIX
Date:     6-18-2009
Location:     Atlanta, GA
Area code:     770
Tax term:     FULLTIME
Pay rate:     80000-90000/yr+bonus
Length:     Permanent
Position ID: 6079

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst - Risk Clearing Systems

Needed: Quality Assurance Analyst w/functional knowledge of Risk Management tools for Portfolio Analysis (Must have knowledge of SPAN, option pricing, Monte Carlo, Black Scholes model's).

*MUST have hands-on experience with the RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS of the POST-Trade Clearing activities.**

*Visa Sponsorship available*

*Please note: This is a full-time, salaried position (80-90k, up to 20%bonus)*

Horizon Technology Partners has an immediate opening for a Quality Assurance Analyst w/functional knowledge of Risk Management tools for Portfolio Analysis. Your skills are needed to assist a direct client located in Atlanta, GA with testing their Risk Clearing Systems and trading platform. To qualify you must have knowledge of Risk Management tools for Portfolio Analysis including SPAN, option pricing, Monte Carlo, Black Scholes model as well as 5 years experience in enterprise application testing (test case development and execution) for an "Exchange", clearing house or Futures Clearing Merchant.

Please note, we are only interested in Senior QA Analyst with strong QA background in the financial clearing sector. To qualify, candidates must have knowledge in all stages of the software development life cycle: Requirement gathering, design, development and implementation. You must also have solid interpersonal skills and be resourceful in order to participate in the software development process. This role requires frequent interaction with project managers, developers, product managers, and Risk management analysts in order to ensure that we deliver a quality-trading platform to our users.

Responsibilities:
- Strong background in functional testing with the ability to design and develop comprehensive automated test strategy and test cases.
- Strong background in reviewing business and functional requirements in order to produce a test strategy and test cases.
- Creates the Test Plan for the software release, defining resources, and test suites required for each test cycle, dependencies, risks, and the overall strategy for testing complex systems or applications.
- Performs all aspects of verification, including functional, structural, regression and system testing.
- Testing in a multi-tiered-based architecture.
- Experience participating in all aspects of a full-lifecycle development methodology, and related quality concepts and processes.
- Performs troubleshooting software/hardware configuration problems.
- Ability to lead a distributed testing effort.
- Ability to review technical requirements with risk terminology to produce test strategies, test scenarios, and test cases for the risk system.


Requires experience/knowledge of the following functional areas:
- Risk management tools for portfolio analysis.
- SPAN, option pricing, Monte Carlo, Black Scholes.
- Scenario and sensitivity analysis for market and liquidation risk of large traders.
- Calculated financial ratios and customized statistics.
- Experience creating Ad-hoc data queries and extractions from client requirements.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in enterprise application testing (test case development and execution) for an exchange, clearing house or FCM.
- 2+ years experience with commodity markets, financial trading environment, or equity brokerage business and exposure to futures markets.
- Prefer 3+ years experience working in UNIX/Linux and SQL/Oracle environments.
- Programming skills (sufficient to write automation scripts, and to validate test results in a database, or through some other non-GUI based method)
- Experience in working with WinRunner and/or QT Pro.
- Ability to build and maintain a QA lab environment.
- Extensive knowledge of testing process, testing methodology analysis and defect reporting tools.
- Experience in testing browser based UI applications.
- Experience with both White Box and Black Box Testing.
- Experience in test automation (regression and performance).
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science or related discipline.

Interested candidates should forward their resumes to: (see below)

Shaun Kirkwood
(see below)
Horizon Technology Partners, Inc
1250 W Northwest Highway
Suite 200
Palatine, IL 60067
Phone:      202-3242 ext: 106
Web:     



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