Software Test Engineer – Contract Role

🕒 May 14

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $50 - $80 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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OptionMetrics

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2000

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-04

Fintech • Finance • Enterprise

OptionMetrics is a leading provider of comprehensive historical options data, known for its accuracy and reliability, serving institutional investors and academic researchers globally. Established over two decades ago, with headquarters in New York City, OptionMetrics offers tools and analytics that aid in evaluating investment strategies, assessing risk, and performing robust financial research. The company's IvyDB databases set the industry standard by offering detailed historical option prices, implied volatility data, and option sensitivities calculated from global financial markets, including in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Canada. Additionally, OptionMetrics supports advanced research projects by offering additional data products like signed volume, implied beta, and dividend forecast data.

📋 Description

• Join the Software QA team to design, implement, and maintain test frameworks for back-end services. • Take a proactive approach to identifying issues and writing automated test cases. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, and Project teams. • Ensure product quality from initial concept to final release. • Work in a fully remote environment while maintaining engagement and communication across teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field is strongly preferred. Candidates with equivalent practical experience in software testing, quality assurance, or test automation within backend systems are also encouraged to apply. • Possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills. • Excel in test case design and documenting test descriptions/test plans. • Enjoy figuring out what should be tested, creating the test, and implementing it. You're someone who can diagnose a potential bug before it occurs and isolate existing bugs. • Possess knowledge of and experience with Java, SQL, and Python. Experience with AWS data tools (S3, Redshift, RDS, and EMR) is a plus. • Have a strong commitment to technical quality assurance as a key part of the development lifecycle. • Implement automated tests and perform functional and regression testing. • Be dynamic and prepared to test/regress a high volume of changes daily. • Enjoy the challenge of researching issues to maintain quality in our large data sets.