Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE: SI) is the leading provider of innovative financial infrastructure solutions and services for the growing digital currency industry. The Company’s real-time payments platform, known as the Silvergate Exchange Network, is at the heart of its customer-centric suite of payments, lending and funding solutions serving an expanding class of digital currency companies and investors around the world. Silvergate is enabling the rapid growth of digital currency markets and reshaping global commerce for a digital currency future. Challenging convention by empowering people allows us to exceed expectations for our clients while cultivating an awesome culture.

The Testing Analyst will report to the Software Testing Manger and will work closely with management from various operational teams to implement process improvement supporting approved strategic change initiatives. The Testing Analyst will collaborate with business team leads and leverage prior experience with testing activities in the financial services industry to drive continuous improvement in process efficiency related to business transition activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILTIES

• Understand the key types of testing i.e. User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression Testing, Functional Testing etc and the purpose and best practice for each
• Communicate effectively with internal, remote teams to truly understand business requirements
• Interpret functional and business requirements and transform them into actionable test plans and test cases
• Collaborate with internal, remote teams to ensure test approach addresses requirements, timelines are feasible, and environments and associated accesses are available
• Schedule and manage test cycles and publish clear progress & status reports
• Where appropriate, execute manual test cases following best practice guidelines
• Analyze bug and defect reports and partner with development team to remedy and plan retests
• Co-ordinate sign-off for different types of testing being performed
• In future, contribute to developing sophisticated and stable automated testing frameworks to increase efficiency, re-usability, and flexibility of product
• In future, responsible for building automation test suites for end-to-end automation
• Establish, adhere to, and continually improve upon company quality assurance standards
• Maintain current knowledge of all federal and state laws and regulations, along with the Company’s policies and procedures
• Not to harm consumers with any act that could be misleading, unfair, deceptive, or abusive in act or practice
• Must adhere to the company’s core values of Challenge Convention, Do What’s Right, Take Ownership, Empower People, Exceed Expectations, and Cultivate Awesome all while keeping our “Why?” front of mind. Our Why? Silvergate is the banking platform for innovators, and we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to create prosperity for our communities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 3 years' of experience in software testing / QA
• 3 years' in financial services experience
• Experience using testing specific tooling that include Automation (Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, GitHub) and API testing tools (TestComplete, Postman, Soap UI)
• Able to demonstrate knowledge in both Agile and traditional (waterfall) project management principles
• Scripting / Development is a plus

BANK SECRECY ACT 

Responsible for adhering to the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering rules and regulations, observing economic sanctions by prohibiting transactions as specified by the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), following the bank’s customer identification program (CIP) rules, observing all Bank policies and procedures relating to BSA, OFAC, CIP, and related acts, and participation in ongoing related training.

WORK CONDITIONS

Remote working conditions. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Required to communicate with customers and coworkers verbally and in writing
• Occasionally required to stand; walk
• Required to sit for long periods and reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to lift up to 10 pounds
• Able to read documents, computer screens, reports, and other communications and have the ability to adjust focus and close vision

Management reserves the right to add to, change and revise this description at any time. This description does not include any marginal functions that are incidental to the essential functions. Also, it does not imply that these are the only tasks to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related tasks requested by their supervisor. Any requirement may be modified to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Silvergate is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vet

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.