Automation Engineer #JREQ018166 | Thomson Reuters | New York City, NY, US

Automation Engineer #JREQ018166 | Thomson Reuters | New York City, NY, US


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Date: Jul 3, 2014

Location: New York City, NY, US
Title:Automation Engineer
ID:JREQ018166

Description

Eikon Data Cloud project aims to centralize various federated data sources into a unified data cloud and provide high performance content and analytics access to the consumers of the cloud and downstream Eikon platform components. Position Summary: As an Automation engineer for the Eikon Data Cloud project, the position requires working as a part of quality team for software validation and release, using various programming techniques to create software tools and utilities for automated test executions.

You will be involved in testing server-side applications that encapsulate the storage, processing, dissemination and business logic related to the Thomson Reuters Analytics contents. As such you will have a unique opportunity to manipulate diversified and large contents sets, to test service-oriented architectures used to build truly decoupled distributed systems and to evaluate distributed applications for large-scale data-intensive applications.

Job Duties:
- Serve as an Automation Engineer [Individual Contributor] in the Quality Assurance team.
- Review requirements/design documentation, create and maintain Test Plans, scenarios and test cases.
- Create and maintain automation scripts using varied programming languages/scripts: Python, Java script, C#, Java technologies, SQL, REST/SOAP web services on Linux and Windows platforms.
- Automate and execute Black/White box, system, integration and end user tests.
- Follow agile guidelines and facilitate Test driven development methodology.
- Demonstrate an interest in the financial market data domain and the ability to master one or more content sets
- Proactively communicate with developers and product/business analysts to resolve issues.
- Be an advocate for Quality Assurance and automation throughout the project life cycle. Adhere to QA Standards and best practices.
- Be an active participant in the overall team objectives and improvement initiatives.
- Support software build, deployment and release procedures.
- Participate in monthly Production install validation activities and off-cycle prod validations as necessary.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related.
- 2-5 years of experience with software testing and test automation. Hands on testing experience with smoke, regression, system, integration, UATs, Black box and Code flow tests.
- Knowledge of Agile and test driven development methodologies.
- Automation scripting and programming using SQL, Shell, Python, C#, Java Script, REST/SOAP on windows and Linux platform.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

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Primary Location: New York City, NY, US
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Organization: F&R UPG Content & Fundamentals Analytics
Schedule: Full-time
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Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
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