Software Engineer

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Software QE Engineer

Be part of a team responsible for designing and developing the critical business applications in the Next Generation and Core Products suite. You will use best-of-breed technology from both established vendors such as Microsoft/AWS as well as open-source technology. As a Software QE Engineer, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in testing, developing, and innovating together as you bring your considerable software engineering skills to our dynamically growing organization. The ideal candidate would be innovative and have great problem solving, communication and analytical skills. He\She should be able to understand how to automate tests, isolate and document issues. And will be comfortable with either a Windows or Linux environment.
We are an agile development shop. Collaborate with software engineers, quality engineers, scrum masters, product owners, and our architecture team, to develop multi-tier, multi-layered application layer framework, and functional components.


Responsibilities include:

· Plan, develop, review, automate and execute test cases

· Participate in product and feature design with developers, usability specialists, user interface designers, and product managers. Participate in functional reviews of specifications.

· Participate in cross team and milestone testing activities

· Diagnose, track, and manage quality issues to resolution. Scrub tickets by reproducing problems, identifying regressions, clarifying impact, and filtering out duplication

· Develop integration tests, performance tests, and scale tests for RMS Nextgen product suite

· Participate in and contribute to code reviews

· Test environments when new builds are pushed

· Automate test cases and plans for validating features in a SaaS environment

· Adhere to quality best practices throughout the product development life cycle

· Take ownership of your work and continuously strive for improvement

· Self-motivated to acquire additional technical skills

Required Skills:

· 4+ years in test automation and quality engineering

· Experience with Windows and/or Linux operating systems.

· Experience with web-based product or services and maintenance of regression, performance, scale tests in large-scale multi-tenant web applications

· Proficient with a high-level language such as Java, C# .NET, C++

· 2+ years of proven hands-on experience in software development and testing

· Familiarity with relational and big data technologies such as Postgres, Aurora, MS SQL and similar database technologies

· Familiarity with Git and build automation tools such as Maven

· Experience in unit & integration testing techniques

· Creates and executes automated tests against REST APIs.

· As an expert in quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for multiple software projects

· Sound understanding of various cloud technologies specially AWS cloud.

· Hands on experience with test automation tools like TestNG, Jmeter is a plus

· Experience with Version Control, Code Collaboration, and Continuous Integration Systems

· Passion for finding and solving problems

· Excellent communication skills, proven ability to convey complex ideas to others in a concise and clear manner

· Experience working in AGILE environment.

· Strong communication skills and ability to work across functional team boundaries

· BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of professional experience

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

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