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Quality Assurance Analyst - Indexes

Center for Research in Security PricesChicago, Illinois, United StatesOnsite

GENERAL SUMMARY:  The primary area of responsibility is of quality acceptance testing and monitoring of CRSP indexes and related processes, financial research data, and software products.  Proficiency working with complex data is required as well as experience with industry standard Quality Assurance tools for test case development, test execution, and defect management. The successful candidate will have quantitative and analytical skills and be able to understand complicated corporate actions and analyze the impact to CRSP Index Systems. A finance background, including familiarity with indexing and an understanding of corporate actions and their impact on securities and their indexes is key to success.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES


  • Analyze, understand, and clarify requirements, devise a test strategy to adequately cover the requirements, develop high-level test scenarios that implement the strategy, elaborate scenarios into detailed test cases.
  • Effectively troubleshoot problems reported both internally and by subscribers, and report clearly and accurately to appropriate parties.
  • Add and maintain functional test cases in the regression test suite to ensure comprehensive coverage.
  • Enhance and maintain test data required for executing regression test suites, ensuring data integrity and relevance.
  • Evaluate, Document, and Test software to verify functionality and performance according to specifications and requirements.
  • Design, Build, Execute and maintain automated testing suites and conduct analysis on data discrepancy and root causes in the testing results.
  • Maintain subject matter expertise for the systems under test and use that expertise to create, maintain, and extend the test case library.
  • Engage with the project team to understand requirements and contribute to project definition
  • Assist in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Collaborate and work effectively with PMs, CRSP developers, Business Analysts, QAs, and other stakeholders to strike the balance between ideal testing and available resources and establishing long-term quality targets.
  • Present effectively to superiors in areas of responsibility (ie.Test cases and test execution).
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required. Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science preferred.
  • At least 2 years of quality assurance or other relevant experience required.
  • Experience creating test plans, test cases, and test data required.
  • Working knowledge of financial research and investment concepts and terminology preferred.
  • Working knowledge of SQL required.
  • Working knowledge of statistical software packages - SAS, Python or other 3rd party software preferred.
  • Experience with automated testing software preferred.
  • Exposure to PowerShell scripts or other shell script writing preferred.
  • Experience with GIT, JIRA and XRaypreferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills required.
  • Strong familiarity with the basic concepts of agile software development preferred.
  • Attention to detail, strong problem solving and organizational skills required.
  • Strong organization skills with the ability to coordinate multiple activities required.
  • Mastery of MS Office applications required.
  • Resume required.
  • LOCATION:  105 West Adams Street, 17TH Floor, Chicago, IL

    REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

      Associate Director, Quality Assurance

    WORK SCHEDULE:


    Index Team modification: Hours of operation are approximately 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM Must be able to start either early morning (as early as 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM) or late morning (as late as 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM) at times to provide production coverage for the team. Some flexibility may be required. Extended hours may be required for applications support in the event of a production problem.

    Life at Center for Research in Security Prices

    In 1960, Chicago Booth embarked on development of the world’s first comprehensive database for historical security prices and returns information. The research-quality data created by this transformational project spawned a vast amount of scholarly research from several generations of academics. For more than 60 years CRSP has maintained the level of quality and industry standards introduced by Professors Lawrence Fisher and James Lorie in the formation of CRSP. Today, with a staff of nearly 90 professionals, CRSP continues its commitment to providing research data for the most rigorous tests in academic research and in backtesting applications by practitioners. In addition, since 2013 CRSP has offered a broad suite of proprietary equity indexes for authorized clients to use for active and passive investment management, benchmarking and analysis. These transparent and efficient indexes provide the foundation for new areas of research and also serve as benchmarks for over $1.5 trillion in investment vehicles including mutual funds ETFs offered by The Vanguard Group. These indexes include cap-based, industry sector and value-growth indexes and demonstrate not only CRSP's innovative thinking, but also the depth of CRSP’s commitment to positively influence practices in the financial arena. More information on the investable indexes can be found in the Investment Products section. On January 1, 2020, CRSP became CRSP, LLC, a separate but wholly owned affiliate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
    Thrive Here & What We Value1. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities2. Cross-functional, teamwork-oriented environment3. Agile software development4. Passionate team that values high quality, testable code5. Collaborative environment with mutual respect and cooperation between all members of CRSP6. Championing clients and creating tight feedback loops for improvements7. Partnering with Communications team for client communications
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