Technical QA Engineer (Entry Level) (TEC00011291)Technical QA Engineer (Entry Level)-TEC00011291DescriptionTechnical QA EngineerThomson Reuters is the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage.
Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster.
Through its more than 50,000 people across 93 countries, Thomson Reuters delivers this must-have insight to the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, and is powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on www.ThomsonReuters.com Overview: The Enterprise Information Quality Assurance team provides functional quality assurance for the DataScope family of software products.
Team members are responsible for: * Understanding product functionality, data content, and system architecture of the product being tested.
* Understanding the customer and how the product will be used by that customer.
* Designing and writing test procedures for a wide variety of tests including functional, automated, performance, regression, and operational resiliency.
May be asked to do some data quality testing.
* Executing test procedures within an established testing window.
* Tracking and managing defects.
* Reporting on testing status and results.
* Understanding new technology and testing methods and being able to integrate those to benefit the team and our projects.
QualificationsThe ideal candidate for this position has a strong technical background and experience with software programming and scripting.
Candidate should be able to apply this experience to improve and enhance our testing practices.
The ability to understand and anticipate the needs of our customers is essential.
Experience in software testing especially in the financial market industry is a plus.
Required Candidate Qualifications: * 1-2 years Programming or Scripting experience (Particularly in Java, C#, C++, and / or VBScript.
)* BS/BA or equivalent work experience.
* Good written & oral communication skills are mandatory.
* Experience working in a team environment.
* Desire to share information and train others is essential.
* Honest, open, passionate, positive “can-do” attitude, self-sufficient.
* Ability to rapidly absorb new concepts – either technological, or industry related.
* Ability to establish external/internal resources to aid the team in reaching its goals.
Desired Candidate Qualifications: * Experience with Web Services particularly using SOAP or REST.
* Advanced user of Automated Testing Tools (eg QTP, SilkPerformer, SilkTest).
Formal training in an automated testing tool is a plus.
* Familiarity with databases particularly Sybase.
Ability to understand schemas and write basic queries using SQL.* Experience working in the financial information industry.
* Experience in software quality assurance.
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted.
We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success.
Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial.
We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities.
Our environment is both challenging and supportive – we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.Job Technology DevelopmentPrimary Location US-NY-New YorkOrganization M Ent Real Time SolutionsSchedule Full-timeJob Type StandardShift Day JobTravel No
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