Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: NYC, Hybrid
Firm: Trading Firm
Role Overview: Our client is seeking an exceptional Quality Assurance Automation Lead to join the Global Trading Technology team. This individual will manage QA team, be a part of part of a dynamic, agile technology team directly involved in their fast-growing algorithmic trading business.
Responsibilities:- Manage QA team deliverables, provide project testing estimates and overall responsible for testing.
- Design, write, execute, and maintain automated test cases for algorithmic trading platform and other trading-related applications and services.
- As a QA Tech Lead, contributing to the design and improvement of the automation testing framework; offering insights and recommendations to inform decisions made regarding automation tools.
- Design and implement load test scenarios and capacity planning of AC3 system
- Provide adequate test coverage based on specifications written by Quants and/or Product teams including trading algorithms, models and various features used by the trading platform.
- Contribute to all areas of team performance including organizing daily scrums and after-action reviews.
- Manage third-tier support and escalation SLA for production issues and related support needs.
Required Experience:- 5+ years of software quality assurance experience and 2+ years of managing automation team within sell-side Equity electronic trading
- Three or more years of experience programming automated test scripts in Python, Java, or similar programming language in the Equity trading domain
- Experience with OMS/EMS such as InfoReach, Fidessa, FlexTrade, Portware, Triton, etc.
- Strong understanding of order management and order routing
- Strong knowledge of FIX protocol, Linux/Bash including scripting, and SQL
- Strong understanding of Equity market structure and market data (Level 1, Level 2)
Desired Experience: - Hands-on experience in automation testing of Equity products in a global financial services company or vendor using Java language in latency-sensitive environments
- Ability to work as part of a team, communicate effectively at all organizational levels with written and verbal communication skills.
Salary Range: 145,000 - 175,000 plus discretionary bonus