Role: Senior QA Engineer

Role Overview
Senior QA Engineer responsible for quality assuring and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing.  Whilst this role requires the execution of manual test cases, there is a programme of change to drive towards automated testing and therefore any experience in taking a manual test capability and driving to automation is advantageous
 
Role Responsibilities

• Ensuring that resilient test frameworks are defined and produced in order to quality-assure code, ahead of deployment to the production environment
• L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate.
• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Ability to work with multiple remote regions.
• Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations.
• Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines.

• Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services.  Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3^rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage
• Proven expertise in server-side Java design and development within banking and trading environments
• Messaging QA Experience: Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows – MQ, XML, FIXML.   Very detail orientated, understands the impact of getting it wrong
• FIX Protocol: Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge)  in eg FX/Credit/Commodities Trading environments
• Middleware: Working knowledge of Solace messaging middleware
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS)
• CI/CD: Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration
• Operating Systems: Strong Linux administration and command-line skills
• Database: SQL experience and database management
• Testing: JUnit and related unit testing frameworks
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments.
• Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum).

• Deep understanding of FX/Credit/Commodities products and financial instruments.
• Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems
• Frameworks: Spring Boot and Google Guice dependency injection
• Observability: Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and metrics
• Testing: Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing
• Infrastructure: Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code
• Caching: Hazelcast distributed caching solutions