Quality Assurance Engineer #JREQ019503 | Thomson Reuters | Oak Brook, IL, US

Quality Assurance Engineer #JREQ019503 | Thomson Reuters | Oak Brook, IL, US


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Date: Jul 1, 2014

Location: Oak Brook, IL, US
Title:Quality Assurance Engineer
ID:JREQ019503

Description

The Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform (TREP) integrates, distributes, and adds value to information from and about the markets. This includes real-time and historical prices from data vendors, exchanges, and brokers; real-time and historical news from the press, the web and internal analysts; as well as internal calculations and other forms of proprietary information used to support crucial decisions.

Through the APIs written in our group, our clients are able to access this wealth of information. They use the APIs to create their own user Interface, algorithmic trading applications, or any other analytical application for accessing the data. This includes real-time and historical prices from data vendors, exchanges, and brokers; real-time and historical news from the press, the web and internal analysts; as well as internal calculations and other forms of proprietary information used to support crucial decisions.

The API team develops cross platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris) APIs in Java, C++and C, which allows clients to publish and consume market information. This can be done through the TREP system or directly to Custom Feeds, 3rd Party Applications, or Reuters Direct Exchange Feeds (RDF-D). The candidate will be actively doing software development in Java to support the API product line.

Qualifications

Required candidate skills:
- Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of professional experience testing and writing scripts for API and infrastructure products
- Full life cycle development: requirements gathering, analysis and acceptance testing
- Strong working knowledge with object-oriented design.
- Strong critical thinking skills.
- Multi threaded, network, TCP, Multicast knowledge
- Performance testing, analysis, and tuning experience
- Proven strong analytical and trouble-shooting skills
- Highly accountable for meeting all commitments and deadlines
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences
- Must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively
- Drive for continuous process improvement
- Windows and Linux/Unix experience

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.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

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Primary Location: Oak Brook, IL, US
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Organization: F&R UPG Feeds
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
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Nearest Major Market: Chicago
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