Software Quality Engineer (Test Automation)

Be part of a team responsible for designing and developing the critical business applications in the Core Products suite. You will use best-of-breed technology from both established vendors such as Microsoft as well as open source technology. As a Software Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in testing, developing, and innovating together as you bring your considerable software engineering skills to our dynamically growing organization. The ideal candidate would be innovative and have great problem solving, communication and analytical skills. He\She should be able to understand how to automate tests, isolate and document issues. And will be comfortable with either a Microsoft or Linux environment.

We are an agile development shop. Collaborate with software engineers, quality engineers, scrum masters, product owners, and our architecture team, to develop multi-tier, multi-layered application layer framework, and functional components.

Responsibilities include:

• Plan, develop, review, automate and execute test cases
• Guide engineers in developing tests
• Participate in product and feature design with developers, usability specialists, user interface designers, and product managers. Participate in functional reviews of specifications.
• Participate in cross team and milestone testing activities
• Diagnose, track, and manage quality issues to resolution. Scrub tickets by reproducing problems, identifying regressions, clarifying impact, and filtering out duplication
• Develop integration tests, performance tests, and scale tests for RMS Core products suite
• Participate in and contribute to code reviews
• Test environments when new builds are pushed
• Automate test cases and plans for validating features in a SaaS environment
• Adhere to quality best practices throughout the product development life cycle
• Take ownership of your work and continuously strive for improvement
• Self-motivated to acquire additional technical skills

Qualifications:

• Experience with Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
• Experience with web-based product or services
• Proficient with a high-level language such as Java, C# .NET, C++
• Experience in working and testing application using Apache Spark.
• Experience in columnar data storage format such Apache Parquet
• Familiarity with relational and big data technologies such as Postgres, Aurora, MS SQL and similar technologies
• Familiarity with Git and build automation tools such as Maven
• Experience in unit & integration testing techniques
• Hands on experience with test automation tools like testNG, Jmeter is a plus
• Creates and runs automated tests against REST API.
• Passion for finding and solving problems
• Excellent communication skills, proven ability to convey complex ideas to others in a concise and clear manner
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across functional team boundaries
• Attention to detail
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field

Soft Skills:

• Passionate about learning
• Ability to problem solve quickly
• Sense of humor
• Passionate about software testing

ABOUT RMS:

Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) models and solutions help insurers, financial markets, corporations, and public agencies evaluate and manage global risk throughout the world. RMS has some 1,300 employees across 13 offices in the US, London, Bermuda, Zurich, India, China, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, with products and models covering six continents.

We lead an industry that we helped to pioneer—catastrophe risk modeling – and continue to innovate. In May 2019, we announced the launch of RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI), an open, flexible and future-proof platform for strategic risk management. Through this purpose-built platform, clients can tap into RMS HD models, rich data layers, intuitive applications and APIs that simply integrate into existing enterprise systems to support business decisions across underwriting, risk selection, mitigation and portfolio management.

Insurers, reinsurers, trading companies, and other financial institutions trust RMS solutions to better understand and manage the risks of natural and human-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, terrorism, and pandemics.

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RMS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $ 74,000.00 to $111,000.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief, in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about an accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email accomodations@moodys.com.

To all recruitment agencies: RMS does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be responsible for the payment of placement fees related to unsolicited resumes submitted to open positions, job aliases, or to our employees.