ABOUT MSCI Inc. (www.msci.com)
MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.
The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indices which include over 120,000 daily indices covering more than 70 countries; Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics covering global equity and fixed income markets; RiskMetrics market and credit risk analytics; ISS out-sourced proxy research, voting and vote reporting services; CFRA forensic accounting risk research, legal/regulatory risk assessment, and due-diligence; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.
For further information on MSCI, please visit our web site at www.msci.com
公司地址： 北京市西城区武定侯街6号卓著中心1101-1102A (带薪实习)
POSITION OVERVIEW:
We are currently seeking an Analytics Quality Assurance Engineer Intern to join our Application Development Group in Beijing, China.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Analytical QA team is a company-wide shared resource responsible for communicating with the Product Management, Research, and Development teams to develop and implement testing processes and procedures for industry adopted financial instruments, statistics, stress tests and reporting. Our goal is to ensure the 'highest level quality' and the 'fastest time to market' in our industry for our financial products. This is an exciting role that lies on the cusp of finance and technology. We provide great learning opportunities to our interns. As a member of this team, the candidate will have direct responsibility for ensuring that MSCI market-leading analytics applications continue to provide clients exceptional analytics quality and sophistication. The members of the Analytical QA team work on complex issues, where analysis is required to determine the root source of problems and associated factors. It is a must that the candidate is detail-oriented and capable to perform multi-task assignments in a timely and independent fashion.
RESPONSIBLITIES:
The candidate will have opportunity to work on innovative financial applications utilizing the latest technologies and will be responsible for understanding client needs and for ensuring that product specifications, functionality and underlying analytics fulfill client needs. The members of our Analytical QA team have the opportunity to contribute in a broad set of roles including: studying functional, non-functional and analytic specifications, developing test plans and test cases, verifying formulas, implementing and using automated test tools, and estimating level of effort of project requirements.
The candidate will be exposed on a daily basis to a range of topics that require domain knowledge in the following areas:
? Performance Analytics
? Equity and Fixed income multi-factor models
? Equity, Fixed Income, Interest Rate and FX instruments and derivatives valuation models
The candidate will also have responsibilities on:
? Analyze and extend our analytics regression tests to ensure complete and efficient coverage for all analytics engine statistics and asset types.
? Develop and extend independent validation tools and documentation used to ensure accuracy for all numbers produced by our analytics engines.
? Work with the Research and Analytics Development teams to evaluate manual and regression test differences, check requirements, and extend test case coverage.
? Create and maintain appropriate documentation on all processes and procedures.
? Ensure that all daily test processes are completed successfully and resolve problems with the assistance of the research and development teams.
? Assist in streamlining and improving the daily test processes.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
? Working towards a Masters degree with focus in finance or a degree in mathematics, physics, statistics, or another quantitative field with a strong knowledge of finance
? Must be willing to work in a global team environment and able to move things forward on projects via strong written and oral proficiency in English.
? Creativity in problem solving for validation of complex models/algorithms
? Experienced with Matlab and/or Excel programming
? Familiarity with xml and/or Java is a plus
? Adapts quickly and easily to working within a rapidly evolving state-of-the-art software architecture
? Strong sense of ownership in testing not just to specification but to real world financial cases – interest and knowledge of the market a plus Outstanding mathematical and analytical skills
? Detail oriented and logical thought process
APPLICATION METHOD:
Send a CV and cover letter or resume to Stanley Li (stanley.li@msci.com), with the email subject title: ‘Analytics QA Intern’
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