Analytics Test Engineer

What you will be responsible for:?

• Testing of Multi Asset Class Risk Analytics platform
• Valuation of analytics for various asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, all kinds of Derivatives and Exotic Instruments
• Collaborating with product, research, and quantitative development teams in testing of new features, methodologies etc.,
• Interacting with clients to discuss quantitative issues, investigating and reproducing the problems they highlight
• Testing activities may include writing test plans, executing tests, regression testing, in-sprint testing etc.
• Follow Agile development processes and methodologies
• Rely on experience and judgment to estimate testing time and accomplish goals
• Keep management informed of testing progress status regularly
• Perform a variety of tasks, and adapts to working on application which is unfamiliar
• Creative ideas are suggested to solve problems
• Professional communication skills are utilized, and made a primary focus

What we value:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in relevant area of specialty with some finance industry experience or MBA in Finance or a graduate degree in Financial Engineering or a similar program
• FRM Level I or CFA Level II Certification
• Around 3 years of experience in Financial Domain
• Understanding of various risk modelling techniques, including the use of factor models, time-series methodologies and asset pricing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the software development industry
• Ability to work with large and complex data sets

Additional preferred skills

• Experience working with a variety of asset classes
• Understanding of Performance Attribution methodologies
• FRM Level II or CFA Level III Certification
• Programming experience in one of Python/R/.NET
• Experience working with databases using SQL queries
• Understanding of REST API and Postman
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems and shell scripts
• Exposure to SCRUM or other agile development processes