Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Divisional Overview

Wealth Management and Investment Management Technology (WMIMT) are responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical platform behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Business.

Project Description

This position is for a Test Automation Engineer with the STO SQEacross multiple new applications such as Salesforce, NBA (Next Best Action), Lead IQ and marketing tools. The candidate will be interfacing with other platform teams, reviewing and conducting gap analysis of functional requirements, create the required testing artifacts, test execution, test data setup, test execution results archiving, defect tracking & test status reporting to ensure overall quality of the applications being tested.

The Candidate would play a squad supporting role in the test execution of the program with the following responsibilities:
Review business cases, requirements gap analysis and preparation of all the required functional testing documents/ artifacts
Writing test cases, test plan leveraging Jira and SDA.
Timely test execution, test results and daily status reporting
Uncovering defects, logging defects in Jira , triage defects with Business, Operations, AppDev and testing teams, track defect statuses to ensure timely delivery and closure.
Comprehensive knowledge of and experience with end-user business processes ensuring financial applications and electronic trading systems meet end user requirements.
Assisting in training and communication of the Testing standards and actions
Collaborate with the team to write, publish and execute expanded test plans, standards and procedures to improve overall scope and quality of software testing done that supports the development effort.
Maintaining a governance and quality scorecard to monitor ongoing program activities
Investigating issues by executing queries, synthesizing analysis and translating the details for presentation to business partners
Helping to coordinate the completion of testing actions to resolve issues
Coordinating the tracking defects and test execution to meet release deadlines.

The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player. The role requires credibility and confidence interacting with senior management, business unit personnel, branch offices and the technology team across the full lifecycle of a project. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team along with NY and India team members, sometimes across multiple time zones.

The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated team player committed to delivering on time and should be able to work under minimal supervision.

Primary Skills / Must haves:
Minimum of 5 years of testing/automation experience
Experience integration, functional, regression testing and production support
Wealth Management domain knowledge
Proficient experience with Selenium / Java
Prior experience in Requirements Analysis and Traceability
Knowledge of technology system interfaces and data integration
Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), technology concepts and best practices
Excellent defect root cause analysis skills and problem-solving
Experience with metrics gathering, tracking, and reporting
Experience with Parallel processing, Tasks, Stages.
Testing experience in data lake store strategy, while ensuring rapid delivery while taking responsibility for applying standards, principles, theories, and concepts.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously
Detail oriented and committed to a high level of accuracy
An innovative frame of mind - open to learning new technologies and techniques
Good interpersonal and consultative skills
Verbal and Written communication skills - primarily the ability to communicate ideas, standards and technical details to the development partners

Desired Skills:
Prior testing Experience in Salesforce customizations
Designing and developing ETL and master data management processes.
Scripting and automation to support development, QA and production database environments and ability to support production.
Maturing the continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies
Proficient programming skills in Python

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $150,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.