Morgan Stanley Hiring for Vice President – QA Engineer – Investment Management (Parametric) at Mumbai, India Full Time

About Morgan STanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

About Parametric

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what’s important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients’ core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric’s hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABout Team

The Quality Assurance team at Parametric:

• We work among agile development/delivery teams to test and deliver custom software used by Parametric business users and customers
• We are integral to ensuring software and system quality through understanding business requirements, test planning, test automation, test execution and acceptance testingrequirements, test planning, test automation, test execution and acceptance testing

General Description (role)

We are looking for an individual that has a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while focused on meeting or exceeding client expectations. The Lead QA Engineer will be responsible for leading a team of QA professionals to design, build and support Test Automation software, ensuring quality in delivering enhancements to proprietary Parametric software. You’ll work closely and collaboratively with QA, SDETs and SREs to continuously improve the testing platform and practices used by agile delivery teams in Parametric IT. You’ll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary, including Infrastructure, DevOps, InfoSec and Release Management.

Primary Responsibilities

– Oversee the QA and Test Automation effort within a project/scrum team

– Provide thought and practice leadership in QA and Test Automation practices

– Design, implement and maintain Test Cases and Test Plans for Parametric proprietary software

– Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites for Parametric proprietary software

– Continuously improve Parametric’s approach and platform for testing – functional, regression, end-to-end, performance/load

– Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, and engineering excellence

– Contribute to testing across the entire stack: Presentation, Service and Data layers

– Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners

– Contribute to high-velocity delivery with safety; enable agility and iterative changes to the UI and product design

Job QUALIFICATIONS

SKILL SET

Required Experience: 10 years of QA and Test Development experience

Skill set: Test Automation, Test Planning / Manual Testing / Exploratory Testing

Primary Skills

– Bachelor’s degree required

– Strong communication skills

– Experience leading QA professionals in a software development environment

– Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)

– Ability to quickly understand complex business problems

– Proven experience leading and/or mentoring within a team/department structure

– Proven experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Postman)

– Proven experience with either C# or Java programming

– Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software

– Working experience in an agile development/delivery team

– Effective communication skills with business users, software developers and other testers

– Proven experience testing web applications, web APIs and data driven applications

– Proven experience designing and implementing automated test suites

– Proven experience using/configuring CI/CD pipelines

– Strong SQL coding/debugging skills

– Experience with SOA (service-oriented architecture)

– Experience with Cloud platforms

– Understanding of software development lifecycle

Good to Have Skills

– Experience with Financial services industry

– Experience with OAuth security a plus

“Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectivesand experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evidentthrough our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.”

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Title: Vice President – QA Engineer – Investment Management (Parametric)

Location: Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA)

Requisition ID: 3237954