Senior QA Engineer

Job Purpose

Trading Systems and Trade Lifecycle

• Design and execute test plans, scenarios, scripts, and cases for equities, options, market data, clearing, settlement, and trading applications.
• Validate order entry, routing, execution, cancellation, modification, trade capture, allocation, clearing, settlement, reporting, and downstream workflows.
• Validate complete trade lifecycle workflows, business rules, reference data impacts, trading session behavior, and product-specific scenarios.

FIX and Market Data Testing

• Validate FIX order entry, execution reports, cancel/replace flows, drop copy, trade capture, allocation, and market data message flows.
• Analyze FIX logs for sequencing, tag-level validation, session behavior, connectivity, reject handling, and execution accuracy.
• Test market data ingestion, transformation, dissemination, replay, recovery, downstream publishing, and market status workflows.
• Verify market data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, sequencing, entitlement, and consistency across systems.

Clearing, UI, and Defect Management

• Validate clearing account processing, trade allocation, settlement, reconciliation, and post-trade processing accuracy.
• Test application screens, navigation, field behavior, permissions, errors, usability, and front-end to back-end reconciliation.
• Document and track defects with evidence, logs, screenshots, data points, and impact details.
• Triage failures, isolate root causes, collaborate on fixes, and maintain test and release documentation.

Automation and Release Support

• Develop and maintain automated tests for regression, recurring validations, and high-value business workflows.
• Improve test coverage, execution efficiency, test data management, defect triage, and regression quality.
• Support UAT preparation, production change validation, release testing, issue investigation, service restoration, and post-deployment verification.
• Work with minimal technical supervision while maintaining ownership and timely communication.

Knowledge and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with capital markets, equities, options, electronic trading systems, exchange operations, and end-to-end trade lifecycle workflows.
• Proven FIX Protocol validation and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong Linux command-line skills for log analysis, process monitoring, file handling, scripting basics, and environment troubleshooting.
• Hands-on SQL experience for backend validation, reconciliation, database analysis, and test data preparation.
• Experience with market data feeds, transformations, reference data, trade and quote data, order books, and downstream consumption.
• Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, usability, smoke, UAT, and production-like validation.
• Experience using Jira or similar defect management tools.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, isolate root causes, document evidence, communicate impact, and work independently.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with exchange trading platforms, order management systems, market data distribution systems, clearing platforms, or regulatory reporting applications is preferred.
• Knowledge of XDP, multicast feeds, real-time feeds, replay and recovery, market status messages, or order book validation is a plus.
• Exposure to automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, test data management, release validation, and regression optimization is preferred.
• Experience supporting production deployments, UAT, production issue debugging, and post-release validation is preferred.
• Experience using AI tools for test design, log analysis, defect triage, or root cause investigation is preferred.

Collaboration and Ownership