Morningstar

The Team

Morningstar DBRS is a leading provider of independent rating services and opinions for corporate and sovereign entities, financial institutions, and structured finance instruments globally. Rating more than 4,000 issuers and 60,000 securities, we are the fourth-largest credit rating agency in the world and a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.

The Role

The Senior QA Automation Engineer, will work closely with cross functional teams, Credit Technology development teams and other Morningstar development teams to ensure a timely and high-quality delivery. This role needs strong QA functional and Automation expertise and will have to coordinate and work with the members in a global team. We are looking for an individual that can apply discipline, create solid software products and be accountable for deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with the development of quality assurance strategies in Agile environment
• Write test cases for the new functionalities of existing and new applications
• Analyze and review system requirements. Uses requirement and other design documents to gain overall understanding of the functionality of the new or enhanced application.
• Test automation framework design and development
• Test automation – create and maintain scripts for automation testing using Selenium web driver, Core Java, basics of JavaScript and good knowledge of SQL, API automation using rest assured and Maven
• Non- Functional test: Performance testing, DB testing and other non-functional testing
• Execute manual test cases and maintain the execution log.
• Track quality assurance metrics
• Document all issues and assist in RCA and in resolution of the bugs

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of Software QA experience, which should include 2+ years of Automation/Scripting and delivering successful products in agile/iterative environments
• Expertise in automation test plans, test cases and test scripts of complicated applications with understanding of business requirement and adapting the testing with the requirement
• Experience in Test Automation using Selenium Web driver, Java, Junit, JMeter, Rest assured
• Experience in JavaScript is a strong plus
• Experience working in Agile Software Development.
• Experience in testing Web Services
• Experience in the development and upgrade of Test Automation Framework
• Strong expertise in problem solving techniques and insuring quality of projects
• Should be well versed with quality assurance techniques, methodologies and best practices leveraging any test management tools
• Strong automated test tool proficiency with practical experience on any automation framework/scripting
• Keen on learning new automation technologies, cloud technologies like AWS and keeping the existing automation framework updated as per new technology trends
• Excellent self-study skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

About Us

DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.

DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.

DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.

If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.