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Automation Engineer

  • Location: New York, 10017
  • Salary: 100.17
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 1 year ago

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!

Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Position: Lead Specialty Software Engineer
Location: NEW YORK, New York, 10017
Term: 23 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for implementing test automation of Cash High Touch OMS vendor products such as Fidessa and WEX
  • Gather requirements, create functional requirements, Epics and User Stories, and document test plans & cases.
  • Coordinate with technology teams on functional delivery.
  • Maintain full project life-cycle tasks, such as business and technical analysis, designing, coding, testing, and implementation plans.
  • Maintain all system diagrams, system interface charts and any other compliance policy and procedure documents.
  • Run demos and training for Business, Support and technology teams.
  • Scripting and executing test cases.
  • Automation of the test cases.
  • Running QA and UAT testing with technology and business teams
  • Delivery using Agile methodology
  • Lead complex initiatives on selected domains.
  • Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
  • Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
  • Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies.
  • Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
  • Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.
  • Mentor less experienced software engineers.
  • Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers.
  • Lead team to achieve objectives.
  • Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.


Is this a good fit? (Requirements):

  • 5+ years of Fidessa or similar Order Management System experience
  • 5+ years of scripting and automation experience
  • 5+ year of experience with programming/scripting languages such as .NET, C#, Java, Python, VBScript, or JavaScript
  • 5+ years of FIX protocol (Financial Information eXchange) and Simulator experience
  • Agile experience
  • Experience with one or more Agile tools used for tracking user stories or backlogs, such as Confluence or Jira
  • GitHub experience
  •  Extensive knowledge of Fidessa and WEX vendor OMS platforms
  • Extensive knowledge of Financial products (Stocks, Options, Preferreds, Warrants Convertibles etc.).
  • Significant experience working with trading desks, middle office, back office.
  • Ability to act as an SME
  • Extensive experience working with the desk heads.
  • Experience with Equities and Options testing
  • Experience with FIX messaging and simulators
  • Experience with testing tools such as UFT, Ranorex, Canopy and other such functional and GUI testing frameworks.
  • Experience with Agile tools such as GitHub, Jenkins etc.
  • Experience with scripting languages ex: VB Script, Python, C# scripting
  • Extensive experience with testing automation of Fidessa
  • Experience with Agile delivery
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Analytical problem solving skills.
  • Attention to detail and thoroughness a must.
  • Ability to manage deliverables end-to-end.
  • Proactive team member with can-do attitude
  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

 

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

About Us

At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re a top 15 U.S. IT staffing firm and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

For hourly W2 contract roles, MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see https://www.matrixres.com/consultants-overview/benefits-and-payroll for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.