Associate, Integration and Data QA Engineer'

About the position

This position plays an important role in developing and maintaining our investment technology base and delivering new platform functionalities. You'll be responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing tests for the various back-end and database systems for which SMA Solutions are responsible. You will also be expected to monitor/support our existing automated processes along with the rest of the Data Team.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product/process engineers to create and maintain high performance, highly available, highly scalable database.
• Develop, maintain, and execute test cases against changes, or new features, affecting our back-end (integration, database, ETL) systems.
• Collect, document, and report test results to greater team as part of the release approval process.
• Review proposed changes from developers and provide feedback on test plans, dependencies, and release methodology.
• Collaborate with QA SDET (Software Development in Test) engineers to develop and expand our test automation framework to cover back-end testing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of database development experience supporting application development teams/projects.
• Strong SQL and database skills.
• Practical experience writing scripts in Python (or other object-oriented programming languages).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, self-pacing, proactive attitude essential to prevent foreseeable issues/problems.

Nice-to-haves

• Related experience in the financial or investment sector is a big plus.
• Familiarity with ETL processes/tools, such as Informatica.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Comprehensive healthcare.
• Leave benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Strong retirement plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Support for working parents.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO).