Senior Automation QA Engineer with Python
Project description
Join our Market Connectivity team, focused on building and maintaining ultra-low latency trading systems and exchange connectivity solutions for global financial markets. As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of high-throughput applications operating in a high-performance computing environment, developing automated testing solutions that support critical trading and market data workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design test strategies and automation approaches for low-latency trading platforms and exchange connectivity solutions
- Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and test suites using Python
- Create automated API, integration, end-to-end, and regression tests for trading and market connectivity workflows
- Validate exchange connectivity, market data flows, and order processing across global trading venues
- Verify the functional correctness, reliability, and performance of trading gateways and market access components
- Analyze business requirements and latency-sensitive trading workflows to ensure effective test coverage
- Investigate test failures, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate closely with developers to resolve issues
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and contribute to the quality, stability, and production readiness of trading systems
SKILLS
Must have
- Strong experience in software testing with a solid understanding of test automation principles and best practices
- Hands-on experience in Python development for test automation
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites
- Strong knowledge of API, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
- Hands-on experience with PyTest, Playwright, Selenium, or similar automation frameworks
- Experience testing distributed, real-time, or high-performance systems
- Good understanding of market connectivity, market data flows, exchange integrations, or trading workflows
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern software delivery practices
- Good knowledge of SQL and database testing techniques
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills
Nice to have
• Experience with Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Electronic Trading, or Market Connectivity solutions • Experience with performance and latency testing of high-throughput distributed systems • Knowledge of messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Solace, or IBM MQ • Experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms • Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments and containerization technologies such as Docker