Quality Assurance

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world’s leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley’s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients’ businesses—and to our own.

MS Wealth Management (MSWM) Technology

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) Technology is the global technology department responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) business. The department is comprised of 10 organizations: Sales, Banking & Corporate-Client Technology, Investment Products & Markets Technology, Client Reporting, Core Processing, Private and International Wealth Management Technology, Technology Integration Office, Enterprise Infrastructure & Production Management, Capital Markets Application & Data Services, Deployment Planning & Release Management, and the Chief Operating Office. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) Technology works with large scale databases such as DB2 and SQL Server, proprietary and non-proprietary messaging software, a broad variety of vendor products, numerous financial exchanges and regulatory entities, and programming languages ranging from .Net and Java to Cobol and VB.Net.

Position Description

– Act as a very hands-on leader of a performance testing team consisting of on/offshore team members for application development silos within for the MSSB technology merger project.

– Design and mentor team members who design and create best-in-class performance testing approaches and plans for enterprise-wide projects.

– Assist project team members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis.

– Evaluate overall system capacity during end-to-end load tests.

– Work tightly with application development, architecture, infrastructure and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.

– Work closely with the test management team to establish performance testing criteria

– Provide quality, process and technical leadership within the Performance Management team.

– Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms.

– Establish a strong presence as a change agent providing innovative, effective, and efficient Performance Management practices and solutions.

Qualifications


Required Skills

– 5-7 years experience in the performance engineering field.

– Must possess a strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, web services, distributed and mainframe databases, mainframe and messaging layers. Must also have a strong understanding of the monitoring solutions and KPIs used to determine availability and performance of these technology stacks.

– Must be well versed in using VUGen 9.5 or greater for advanced test script development beyond the built-in record and playback capabilities.

– Must be well versed in using the reporting/analysis engine for reporting on and correlating system-level events with the impact on the end user experience.

– Must be able to create load test scripts using VUGen in at least two or more of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, AJAX Click and Script, ODBC, Terminal Emulator, Visual Basic, .NET and Java.

– Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

– Should possess an understanding of software development and implementation methodologies including waterfall and Agile.

– Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools and statistical analysis.

– Strong experience in mainframe and distributed application performance testing.

Strong understanding and/or hands-on experience is required in the following categories:

– Operating System: Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, Red Hat Linux.

– J2EE Application Server: IBM WebSphere XD/ND

– Database: IBM DB2 distributed and mainframe v9.x, SQL Server 2005+

– Application Development Platforms: .NET, J2EE,

– Tools: HP suite of products specifically Performance Center, HP

– Diagnostics (.NET and J2EE), Quick Test Pro and Quality Center