QA Engineer

QA Engineer
The Nasdaq QA organization is continuing to expand in our Nordic technology center in Ume. This is an extraordinary opportunity to join the worlds leading exchange technology company and work with cutting-edge technologies in an international environment where our clients include high profile organizations like Hong Kong Exchange, Singapore Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange, Japan Exchange Group and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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With this position we offer:


The opportunity to work within a highly skilled and experienced product engineering team. You will belong to cross-functional scrum team consisting of Business Analysts, Software Engineers, and Test Engineers.
We are looking for someone who can bring expertise related to how to design and test our systems non-functional aspects, ensuring resiliency and performance.


Role and responsibilities:


Review business requirements, SLAs and hardware configuration specifications
Participate in system design activities related to both functional and non-functional aspects of the systems
Design, plan, coordinate, lead and test system conformance to Service Level Agreements
Tuning of system to ensure client performance expectations are met
Create test effort estimates, test plans, test specifications and test reports
Execute all types of tests in the non-functional area such as transaction latency, throughput, robustness, failover, operational tests, exploratory, etc.
Automation of non-Functional tests relating to performance and resilience


We are looking for someone with:


A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
Some experience/knowledge in programming, testing tools and performance testing
Experience in performance- and resiliency testing of software and infrastructure
Knowledge in scripting and programming inJava, Perl, Python, shell and similar script languages
Knowledge of Linux systems andadministration


It would be great if you have:


Experience working with financial systems especially trading/clearing/settlement systems
Experience from analysis, troubleshooting, and optimization on large scale enterprise systems
Knowledge about Thread, Heap and Crash Dump analysis for performance tuning and bottleneck analysis
Knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL query plan and contention/locking analysis and tuning, ability to interpret AWR reports


Does this sound like you?


This is a full-time position located in Ume, Sweden. Desired start date is as soon as possible. We will commence the interview process in January, please submit your application in English.


About Nasdaq Ume


Nasdaq is expanding its Nordic tech hub in Ume with the office located in the city center, next to Utopia mall. Our office is close to gyms, restaurants and public transport. Nasdaq Sweden also provides its employees with 32 annual vacation days as well as 2 optional paid volunteer days. We offer a competitive salary package which includes annual bonus and equity plans as well as an employee stock purchase program.


Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable law.


Apply online: http://nasdaqinc.contacthr.com/82161860