Senior QA Engineer (with Trade lifecycle experience)

Building a trading platform for innovative international top-tier hedge fund from the ground up, comprising of front-office system for traders, pre-trade checks and analysis, intra-day positions management, order management and routing, risks and limits management, reports of trading activities, FIX connectivity, market data providers connectivity (e.g. Bloomberg B-pipe).

Responsibilities

QA will work across multiple teams including developers, devOps, other QA.

Interaction with business stakeholders, end-users, developers, and other QA;

Manual API testing

Analyzing logs and test results

Work on backend automation

Creation test cases in TestRail

Be pro-active in terms of process building

Manual testing of desktop application (trading platform)

Skills

Must have

Technical Skills:

8+ years of testing Expertise:

Strong experience in manual and automation testing of both UI and backend (APIs, java microservices)

Proficiency in functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) testing

UI Testing (Manual & Automation):

Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress for UI test automation

Experience in testing UI built with React or similar

Backend & API Testing:

Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman, RestAssured

Basic experience in database validation (SQL & NoSQL) for backend data consistency

Microservices & Messaging Systems:

Understanding of microservices architecture and service-to-service communication.

Experience with Kafka-based event-driven systems (testing producers/consumers, validating messages).

Automation & Programming:

Proficiency JavaScript for test automation.

Experience with Cucumber, or BDD frameworks.

Ability to build and maintain test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing.

Unix/Linux & Scripting:

Strong experience working with Unix/Linux environments for log analysis, process monitoring, and debugging.

Ability to write shell scripts for automation tasks.

Soft Skills:

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Excellent communication skills to collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams.

Experience in writing detailed test cases, test plans, and defect reports.

Nice to have

business domain experience (Trading, FIX protocol)

Experience integrating automated tests into Jenkins/Azure CI/CD

Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

Experience with JMeter, Gatling for performance testing.