Test Engineer- Financial Planning
About LearnVest
LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future.
Your mission at LV
As a technical, hands-on financial planning analyst, you will be integrated into a software development team as a quality advocate that tests and analyzes the planning advice given by a proprietary algorithm that is used to generate financial plans for our clients. The financial algorithm is a piece that fits into large, web and mobile-based software projects and services thousands of clients a month.
In addition to leveraging your financial planning background to ensure that our planning advice is excellent by all measurable standards, you will be expected to learn (with provided time and training) industry-standard software quality assurance practices and software development processes.
Your general milestones are the following:
- Within first month, demonstrate broad understanding of our application as a whole and how the algorithm fits into individual pieces of software. Should also be able to demonstrate both a holistic and nuanced view in how the algorithm works. Training and guidance will be provided.
- Within first month, successfully complete the LearnVest planner training bootcamp to understand our planning standards and how our planners interface with clients.
- Within first month, with guidance from the technical lead, be able to successfully demonstrate the ability to exhaustively test small portions of the algorithm and give valuable feedback / ask questions that show you grasp the software and basic testing concepts.
- Within three months, pass the ISQTB Foundation Level exam for apprentice QA Engineers (see http://www.istqb.org/certification-path-root/foundation-level/foundation-level-content.html) - sufficient time and training material will be provided.
- Within five months, with minimal assistance from technical leads, be able to analyze new features or modifications to the algorithm and create a testing plan upon which you then execute.
Competencies
- Financial background.
- CFP a huge plus.
- Technical, must enjoy getting your hands dirty and be excited to learn about new technology.
- Can move quickly. Everyone here is incredibly kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you have to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen.
Benefits
- Whip-smart team that is very friendly and always willing to lend a hand.
- Highly competitive salary.
- Amazing Benefits.