The ETS division at CME is involved in developing futures and options trading systems to provide electronic trading capability to our customers. The quality assurance department is continuously improving the processes and using new tools to improve the quality of our products to provide a stable and reliable trading platform for our customers.

This position will report into the quality management department. The primary responsibilities of the position are:

- Work with the development team and CPO team to understand the business needs as well as the technology implementation to come up with test plans.
- Review all business and specifications documents provided by CPO and development for accuracy and timeliness.
- Create test suites, test cases and test data.
- Document Systems Certification Test Suites and Test results.
- Verify actual test results for each test case match the expected results.
- Ensure communication of test results and status to all groups involved.
- Update and maintain Systems Certification documentation.
- Provide inputs to the test tools team for building tools to support testing.
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to developers.
- Escalate issues and risks to test manager.
- Automate test cases using Compuware suite of tools.
- Follow systems certification processes and procedures.

Engineering
The following would be pluses:

- Experience in effort estimation, test planning and testing of products developed using RUP or other iterative methodologies.
- Have written test plans, test cases from scratch using requirements documents, functional specifications, use cases, design and architecture documents.
- Experience in working with multiple project managers and development managers to drive QA and testing for releasing a product.
- Ability to see the high level picture in testing a product and find loop holes where the product has not been tested and provide timely inputs to the test manager.
- Developed test plans and test cases for the following testing on one or several projects:

- Functional testing
- Integration testing cross modules / systems
- Performance testing ** Web, Databases, APIs
- Reliability testing, Fault tolerance, Failover testing
- Security testing
- API level testing
- White box testing
- Have used automation on one or several projects using automation tools from Compuware / Mercury Interactive or homegrown automation framework
- Should have some of the following technical skills:
Unix, Unix shell scripting, crons, Oracle, SQL, data structures, schemas, database performance testing, Tibco RV / MQ messaging
Java, JSP, JDBC based application testing, eveloped test suites using Java and other automated tools for test execution.
- Worked on a project involving testing of a high volume transaction based system using the above technologies