Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities

• Trading Systems QA Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, and test 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. Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, smoke, UAT, and production-like validation across integrated trading systems.
• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, and test 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.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, smoke, UAT, and production-like validation across integrated trading systems.
• Trade Lifecycle Testing Validate complete trade lifecycle workflows from order entry through execution, trade capture, clearing, settlement, reporting, and downstream consumption. Verify lifecycle transitions, business rules, reference data impacts, trading session behavior, and product-specific scenarios for Equities and Options.
• Validate complete trade lifecycle workflows from order entry through execution, trade capture, clearing, settlement, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Verify lifecycle transitions, business rules, reference data impacts, trading session behavior, and product-specific scenarios for Equities and Options.
• FIX Protocol Testing Validate FIX order entry, execution reports, cancel/replace flows, cancel rejects, drop copy, trade capture, allocation, and market data message flows. Analyze FIX logs for message sequencing, tag-level validation, session behavior, connectivity, reject handling, and execution flow accuracy.
• Validate FIX order entry, execution reports, cancel/replace flows, cancel rejects, drop copy, trade capture, allocation, and market data message flows.
• Analyze FIX logs for message sequencing, tag-level validation, session behavior, connectivity, reject handling, and execution flow accuracy.
• Market Data and Feed Validation Test market data feed ingestion, transformation, dissemination, replay, recovery, and downstream publishing workflows. Validate trades, quotes, order book data, symbol/security lifecycle events, market status messages, session transitions, and reference data updates. Verify market data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, sequencing, entitlement/availability, and consistency across systems.
• Test market data feed ingestion, transformation, dissemination, replay, recovery, and downstream publishing workflows.
• Validate trades, quotes, order book data, symbol/security lifecycle events, market status messages, session transitions, and reference data updates.
• Verify market data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, sequencing, entitlement/availability, and consistency across systems.
• Clearing and Settlement Testing Validate clearing account processing, trade allocation, settlement workflows, reconciliation, and post-trade processing accuracy. Ensure exchange, business, and regulatory processing requirements are correctly applied across end-to-end trade flows.
• Validate clearing account processing, trade allocation, settlement workflows, reconciliation, and post-trade processing accuracy.
• Ensure exchange, business, and regulatory processing requirements are correctly applied across end-to-end trade flows.
• Trading Systems UI Testing Validate application screens, user workflows, navigation, field behavior, permission-based behavior, error messages, data consistency, and usability aspects. Perform front-end and back-end reconciliation to confirm UI behavior aligns with database, logs, FIX messages, and downstream system outputs.
• Validate application screens, user workflows, navigation, field behavior, permission-based behavior, error messages, data consistency, and usability aspects.
• Perform front-end and back-end reconciliation to confirm UI behavior aligns with database, logs, FIX messages, and downstream system outputs.
• Defect Management and QA Delivery Identify, document, and track defects using Jira or equivalent tools, including clear evidence, logs, screenshots, data points, and impact details. Review and triage test failures, isolate root cause, collaborate with developers and product teams, and verify fixes through retesting and regression validation. Maintain clear documentation of test plans, test cases, execution results, defect summaries, sign-off notes, and release readiness updates.
• Identify, document, and track defects using Jira or equivalent tools, including clear evidence, logs, screenshots, data points, and impact details.
• Review and triage test failures, isolate root cause, collaborate with developers and product teams, and verify fixes through retesting and regression validation.
• Maintain clear documentation of test plans, test cases, execution results, defect summaries, sign-off notes, and release readiness updates.
• Automation and Continuous Improvement Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for regression, recurring validations, and high-value business workflows. Improve test coverage, execution efficiency, defect triage, test data management, and regression quality through process and automation enhancements. Use AI-based tools where appropriate for test case generation, log analysis, root cause investigation, and intelligent defect triage.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for regression, recurring validations, and high-value business workflows.
• Improve test coverage, execution efficiency, defect triage, test data management, and regression quality through process and automation enhancements.
• Use AI-based tools where appropriate for test case generation, log analysis, root cause investigation, and intelligent defect triage.
• Production, UAT, and Release Support Support UAT preparation, production change validation, release testing, issue investigation, service restoration, and post-deployment verification when required. Work with minimal technical supervision while maintaining strong ownership, timely communication, and quality-focused delivery.
• Support UAT preparation, production change validation, release testing, issue investigation, service restoration, and post-deployment verification when required.
• Work with minimal technical supervision while maintaining strong ownership, timely communication, and quality-focused delivery.

Knowledge and Experience

Preferred Knowledge and Experience