CFRA Research

QA Engineer

• Test Planning: Collaborate with developers, architects, and stakeholders to understand API requirements and design test plans and strategies for API testing on AWS.
• Test Case Development: Develop comprehensive test cases for API testing, covering functional, non-functional, and edge cases, ensuring thorough test coverage.
• Test Automation: Implement automated tests for APIs using tools like Postman, Selenium, or tools such as Jenkins to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Regression Testing: Conduct regression testing to ensure that changes to APIs do not introduce new bugs or regressions, maintaining the overall quality of the APIs.
• Performance Testing: Conduct performance testing of APIs using AWS tools like AWS XRay, to evaluate API performance under different loads and conditions.
• Security Testing: Perform security testing of APIs to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with security best practices and standards.
• API Gateway Testing: Test API gateway configurations and integrations to ensure proper routing, transformation, and security of API requests and responses.
• Error Handling Testing: Test error handling mechanisms of APIs to ensure they return appropriate error codes and messages in case of failures or invalid requests.
• Documentation: Document test plans, test cases, and test results, and collaborate with developers to ensure issues are properly documented and tracked.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and improve the quality of APIs, following an Agile development process.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest trends, tools, and technologies related to API testing and quality assurance, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies.
• Communication: Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, providing clear and concise feedback on the quality of APIs and any issues found during testing.

Quality Assurance Engineer – Enterprise Solutions

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams to identify system requirements and develop testing plans
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance Analyst

Data Analyst

• Execute the daily collection, cleaning, and validation processes of fund-related data to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Monitor and perform quality assurance on data ingested via automated processes
• Identify and address errors, duplicates, or inconsistencies in datasets to maintain accuracy and integrity.
• Interact with a Scrum Team for identifying and resolving issues with automated processes
• Participate in expanding data collection efforts.
• Assist Assistant Manager/Manager in preparing comprehensive reports on incident reporting, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), fixes, and work in progress on key metrics and insights.
• Respond to data-related inquiries from Senior Analyst and your inline Manager.
• Maintain documentation of data sources, processes, and methodologies.
• Work closely with data engineers to establish and optimize data pipelines.

Senior Data Analyst

• - Execute the daily collection, cleaning, and validation processes of fund-related data to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• - Monitor and perform quality assurance on data ingested via automated processes
• - Identify and address errors, duplicates, or inconsistencies in datasets to maintain accuracy and integrity.
• - Interact with a Scrum Team for identifying and resolving issues with automated processes
• - Participate in expanding data collection efforts.
• - Assist Assistant Manager/Manager in preparing comprehensive reports on incident reporting, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), fixes, and work in progress on key metrics and insights.
• - Respond to data-related inquiries from Senior Analyst and your inline Manager.
• - Maintain documentation of data sources, processes, and methodologies.
• - Work closely with data engineers to establish and optimize data pipelines.

Manager

• Ensure engineering team develops high-quality, high-performance, scalable applications using best practices and the latest generation of technologies
• Work collaboratively with product, data, and technology stakeholders to refine roadmaps for technical solutions
• Provide technical leadership to multiple teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Mentor, grow, and work with a skilled team while shaping the future of our products and balancing headcount budget
• Create and maintain a culture of continuous learning and improvement of both the engineering team and CFRA systems
• Lead in planning, implementation, and optimization of CFRA’s AWS cloud infrastructure and other infrastructure related costs
• Lead in building and maintaining of self-service Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tooling to support configurations, deployment, monitoring, observability, and lifecycle management of a wide range of compute workloads and services
• Work closely with solutions architects, application developers, and quality assurance testers to advocate a DevSecOps culture within the team
• Plan and assist leadership in security and compliance audits
• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
• Lead automation initiatives across the team especially within the QA area
• Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the organization

Development Manager

Chief Technology Officer

Head of Technology

Research Analyst

• - Collaboration with the equity research team to produce and publish analysis on companies and industries.
• - Provide Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations on a defined coverage universe.
• - Publish stock reports, research notes, in-depth actionable thematic research, and industry research.
• - Build and maintain valuation models and comparable company analysis to determine whether a company’s stock is overvalued or undervalued.
• - Participate in external and internal webinars and live presentations.

Vice President, Equity Research Analyst

Bookkeeper

• Process payroll for multiple states and countries under strict deadlines
• Reconcile payroll register, source document, and funding total each pay period
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations
• Review and verify payroll data entries, deductions, and adjustments
• Handle complex payroll scenarios including retroactive pay, garnishments, commissions and benefits
• Generate and analyze payroll reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Support audits and regulatory filings
• Act as a point of contact for escalated payroll inquiries

Senior Payroll Specialist

• Conduct and publish forensic accounting research on U.S. and European listed public companies in the financial sector and real estate
• Rigorous financial statement analysis and interpretation of company-specific and sector-specific data
• Publish high-impact reports for institutional investor clients detailing research findings
• Complete bespoke research requests and perform custom research projects for clients
• Maintain industry-specific dashboards and respond to ad hoc client inquiries
• Communicate research findings and views regularly both virtually and in-person
• Collaborate with members of the U.S. and European and industry-specific sector teams

Equity Research Analyst, Forensic Accounting

Digital Marketing

• CFRA is looking for a strategic and results-oriented Digital Marketing Manager to lead our digital presence and outreach initiatives.
• With your extensive skills and experience in account-based marketing, SEO/SEM, digital advertising, website management, and content optimization, you will drive awareness, engagement, website traffic, and inbound leads, with a focus on quality and increased conversion rates and each stage of the marketing funnel.
• You will partner closely with CFRA’s marketing leadership to develop and implement a comprehensive digital strategy to achieve the stated goals and lead the day-to-day execution, tracking, reporting, and optimization of the process from end-to-end.
• Oversee day-to-day management and optimization of CFRA web properties including seamless user-journeys and value-added content
• Develop an organic search (SEO) strategy that is targeted, monitored, and optimized on an ongoing basis
• Manage and optimize paid lead generation strategies (ABM, SEM, social, native advertising, etc.) to drive high quality inbound leads
• Identify and utilize AI tools for content generation, personalization, and performance optimization
• Manage advertising spend within budget with a focus on efficiency of spend and velocity of conversion
• Develop site localization and optimization strategy for Europe and Asia
• Ensure relevant content, graphics, videos etc. are fresh, on-brand, and updated regularly
• Conduct ongoing research (keyword, competitive, etc.) to inform, organic, paid, localized, and content strategies
• Conduct ongoing optimization of site design, content structure, and user experience by leveraging competitive analysis, best practices, analytics, and customer feedback
• Conduct regular site audits to identify and address technical SEO issues
• Report regularly on all facets of site and search performance
• Maintain strong market intelligence, keeping up to date on financial trends and competitors

Digital Marketing Manager

Attorney

• The VP of Sales will play a key role in expanding the reach of our policy and legal research of CFRA business Washington Analysis. This individual will be responsible for driving business growth, promoting our research offerings, and serving as a strategic link between our analysts and the investment community.
• With support from a Business Development Rep (BDR) develop relationships with prospects (largely hedge funds, mutual funds, alternative asset managers, and other institutional firms) to continually build pipeline
• Promote and sell policy and legal research products, analyst access, and custom research engagements
• Achieve new sales quota
• Collaborate with research analysts to understand and communicate key policy and legal themes and actionable investment thesis
• Identify and communicate client focus and needs to support alignment of research offerings with investment strategies
• Maintain data in Salesforce to ensure transparency and accurate forecasting and reporting
• Organize client meetings, webinars, and analyst roadshows
• Stay abreast of political and regulatory developments relevant to financial markets