Senior Manual QA to $4500

About DASH Financial Technologies

DASH Financial Technologies is a leading capital markets technology and execution provider. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago and Ukraine, DASH delivers customizable trading technologies, execution services, analytics, and regulatory tools for the institutional trading community.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Manual QA Engineer to join a goal-oriented, cross-functional team working on the Data Modernization Platform (DMP).

DMP is a distributed, microservice-based platform that provides real-time transaction data capture, processing, and streaming for capital markets systems. It delivers validated and transformed data to near-real-time analytical systems and relational database (RDB) consumers.

The role focuses on end-to-end testing of data flows, data correctness validation, and supporting incident root-cause analysis across environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute manual test cases for backend services and data flows
• Perform end-to-end functional testing across UAT and Production-like environments
• Validate data correctness, transformations, and consistency across systems
• Use DLQ entries and system logs as starting points for incident and issue investigation
• Participate in incident analysis, post-release validation, and root-cause analysis activities
• Investigate backend issues using logs, metrics, and data queries
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to verify requirements and assist in investigations / RCA
• Work with Developers and Data Quality Engineers on defect analysis and resolution
• Support regression testing and release readiness
• Participate in occasional on-call engagements, including monitoring and initial investigation or triage of incidents reported by Support or other teams

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in test case design, bug reporting, regression testing
• Backend / microservice testing experience
• Backend issue investigation experience
• Experience with Kibana, Grafana, Kafka (RedPanda-compatible)
• SQL fundamentals (Postgres, Oracle)
• Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Understanding of financial trading systems
• Experience working in Agile / Scrumban environments
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, TestRail
• English level B1 or higher

Will Be a Plus

• Using DLQ as diagnostic signals during investigations
• Data quality validation exposure
• Capital Markets experience (US equities and options)
• Financial data pipeline testing
• Interest in AI-assisted analysis
• Python for data analysis and running helper tools
• Experience working in a cross-functional team across different locations and time zones

Team & Environment

• Capital Markets domain
• Data Modernization Platform (DMP): real-time transaction data capture and streaming to near-real-time and RDB consumers
• Team: 2 Business Analysts, 3–4 Developers, 1 Manual QA, 1 Automation QA, 1 Data Quality Engineer
• Delivery model: Scrumban

What We Offer

• Full-time remote work or office option in Vinnytsia
• Flexible working hours
• All necessary equipment provided
• Accounting support
• Opportunity to work on complex, high-volume trading systems