- Company Name
- Stratacent
- Job Title
- QA Engineer-Calypso ERS
- Job Description
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Job Title: QA Engineer – Calypso ERS
Role Summary:
Deliver comprehensive testing for Calypso Enterprise Risk System (ERS) across market, credit, and risk reporting modules, ensuring accuracy of risk calculations, trade lifecycles, and regulatory compliance within a capital markets environment.
Expectations:
- Execute rigorous functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing on schedule.
- Validate risk metrics (VaR, sensitivities, limits) and stress tests.
- Maintain high defect reporting and resolution standards, supporting L2/L3 production support.
- Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and risk teams to clarify requirements and improve test effectiveness.
- Uphold SDLC/STLC best practices and contribute to release management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and execute test plans, strategies, and cases for Calypso ERS modules.
- Test full trade lifecycle: trade capture, confirmation, settlement, P&L, risk reporting.
- Perform data validation and reconciliation using SQL and UNIX/Linux tools.
- Execute import/export, batch jobs, and interface testing.
- Validate derivatives (FX, IRD, structured products) and risk workflows.
- Participate in release management, defect triage, and production support.
- Support regulatory and audit‑driven testing initiatives.
- Document test results, issues, and test coverage metrics.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years QA experience in Capital Markets technology.
- Strong, hands‑on experience with Calypso ERS, including market, credit, and risk modules.
- Deep understanding of capital markets, derivatives (FX spot, forwards, swaps), and risk reporting.
- Functional and system testing expertise.
- SQL proficiency; UNIX/Linux command line.
- Familiarity with batch jobs, feeds, interfaces.
- Experience with test management tools (ALM, JIRA, Xray, Zephyr).
- Excellent communication and defect‑tracking abilities.
*Nice to Have*:
- Automation experience (Selenium, Java, Python).
- Calypso upgrade or cloud migration testing.
- Knowledge of FRTB, VaR, stress testing.
- Experience in investment bank or dealer environment.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or related field.
- No mandatory certifications listed.