Lead Software Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the FX Engineering teams to test and improve critical FX trading software applications.

• Build test automation frameworks and train the automation models with the functional scenarios by partnering with incumbent consultants.

• Transition all exiting regression scenarios to the new test automation framework and write moderately complex code/scripts to test the FX trading systems.

• Responsible for monitoring product engineering with a perspective towards improving product quality.

• Create test stubs and harnesses as necessary to perform system functional testing and system contract testing.

• Work with the team in requirements grooming to understand the business requirements and test requirements;

• Maintain and update automated test scripts based on agreed acceptance criteria;

• Help the team build functional and non-functional test scenarios based on user story covering the requirements, multi functional and other aspects of the systems such as load, performance and fault tolerance in TDD – Test Driven Development and BDD – Behavior driven development (Given, When, Then format);

• Review tests built by Product, Operations and Engineering team members for coverage and negative scenarios;

• Implement and report results of automated tests with the team;

• Monitor and solve issues in automated test scripts;

• Report issues and anomalies in the system in the issue tracking system;

• Research new QA tools & methodologies and suggest improvements to the team particularly using AI and ML models.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Development Engineer

• Understanding of Electronic Trading ecosystem (FX knowledge preferred)

• Understanding of messaging and network protocols

• Understanding of Distributed/Event driven systems

• Working on Linux / UNIX operating systems

• Extensive knowledge of databases and query languages for RDBMS/NoSQL/Time Series DBs

• Writing test automation scripts using Java/Python/C++

• Experience of working in software delivery methodologies such as Agile/Scrum

• Support and evolve DevOps CI/CD platforms for Continuous Testing

• English Level C1 - High fluency in English with strong communication skills in verbal and written English

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