Vice President, QA Engineer - San Francisco, CA, United States - Blackrock, Inc.

Description

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset.

We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

Our unique approach to portfolio management requires development of custom software to ensure efficient and accurate execution of our daily tasks.

Therefore, security, accuracy, and reliability are paramount, considering the volume of business handled daily.

As a software engineer focusing on the quality of our products, you will be a part of our highly collaborative engineering team, focusing on our Salesforce implementation.

Your main responsibility will be collaborating with various stakeholders to determine our quality metrics, develop the platform and tools required to measure and monitor them, and lead any improvement effort required to deliver them.

You will play a key role in ensuring that every release of our software performs as specified by the business owners, and fulfils our high standards in security, accuracy, and reliability.

Establish automated test framework, processes, and practices forSMA Solutions'Salesforce implementation.
Develop, maintain, and enforce quality metrics.
Drive overall quality process by advocating discipline in versioning, documentation, and deployment processes.
Collaborate with the Data and System Development teams to understand Salesforce changes and coordinate any necessary deployments on our internal systems
Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for Salesforce Suite of applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/Java
Implement and execute automated tests for APIs to ensure the seamless integration and functionality of Salesforce applications
Develop and execute test plans tailored to Salesforce-specific functionalities
Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and business analysts, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of testing requirements
Clearly communicate testing progress, issues, and resolutions to relevant stakeholders
Stay updated on the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices related to QA automation
Actively contribute to the enhancement of the overall testing process and framework
Ten plus years of software testing or software development.
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in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, or related fields; Excellent interpersonal skills for building strong partnership with our business teams, influencing changes, and advocating software-quality-related values and principles.

Intimate familiarity with quality metrics: escaped defects, reliability, repeatability, resiliency
Deep understanding of the Salesforce development ecosystem: Apex, Lightning and Lightning Web Components, Aura
Deep understanding of Salesforce data access methods: query languages (SOQL and SOSL), API technologies (SOAP and REST API)
Selenium, Playwright
Expertise with object-oriented languages, e.g. Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java
Strong foundation in RDBMS and SQL
Related experience in the financial or investment sector is a big plus
DevOps skills to support development and deployment of our test suites.
Familiarity with Agile software development process desirable
Experience in security testing desirable
Certifications in quality-related frameworks, e.g. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.

BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all.

Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities.

We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation.

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission:
to help more and more people experience financial well-being.

Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses.

Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy:

support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn:
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person's appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

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