MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.
The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indices which include over 120,000 daily indices covering more than 70 countries; Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics covering global equity and fixed income markets; RiskMetrics market and credit risk analytics; ISS out-sourced proxy research, voting and vote reporting services; CFRA forensic accounting risk research, legal/regulatory risk assessment, and due-diligence; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.
For further information on MSCI, please visit our web site at www.msci.com
We are currently seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Application Development Group Organization in Beijing, China.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
MSCI is seeking an outstanding quality assurance engineer to join our product development team in Beijing. As a key member of this team, the candidate will work closely with the development teams based in Oklahoma, Ann Arbor, and New York City to ensure that MSCI risk applications continue to provide clients exceptional quality and sophistication. The candidate is expected to be detail oriented and capable of performing multi-task assignments in a timely and independent fashion.
The candidate will work on innovative applications utilizing the latest technologies, and will be responsible for ensuring that product specifications and functionality fulfill client needs. The individual is expected to create tests, setup regression automation, and execute functional tests for risk applications. The candidate should be highly motivated, have strong communications skills, and the ability to learn quickly.
RESPONSIBLITIES:
The candidate will have opportunity to work on innovative financial applications utilizing the latest technologies and will be responsible for understanding client needs and for ensuring that product specifications and functionality fulfill client needs. The members of our functional QA team have the opportunity to contribute in a broad set of roles including: studying functional, non-functional specifications, developing test plans and test cases, verifying web service components, implementing and using automated test tools, and estimating level of effort of project requirements.
The candidate will be exposed on a daily basis to a range of topics in the following areas:
· Develop, monitor, and intervene on automated test framework for workflow, web services, and user interfaces.
· Document results for benchmarking purposes and track performance.
· Investigate client issues and work with the team to provide resolution.
· Ability to independently investigate open issues regarding the product functions in a Web Application and document any errors.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
· Written and oral proficiency in English
· Comfortable working in a team and bringing people together across teams.
· Adapts quickly to working within a rapidly evolving state-of-the-art software architecture and strong multitasking abilities.
· Master or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering
· Strong Programming experience with C++, Java, Perl or Ruby, XML
· High degree of motivation, with strong communications skills and ability to learn quickly.
· Understanding of REST and SOAP-based web services
· Strong sense of ownership in testing not just to specification but to real world financial cases – interest and knowledge of the product functions is a plus
· 2 years of QA work experience is a plus
MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy/maternity leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.