QA Automation (Trading Systems)

We are looking for a highly experienced QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our real-time trading systems in a global Forex/CFD environment.
You will work closely with developers, product teams, and dealing/risk departments to design robust automated testing frameworks for pricing, order execution, trading cores, market data feeds, risk engines, and integrations with external liquidity providers.

Responsibilities

Automated Testing

• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive automated test suites covering:
  • order execution flows
  • market data distribution
  • risk calculations
• Build frameworks for deterministic simulation of trading scenarios and edge cases.

Performance & Stress Testing

• Implement and manage stress, latency, throughput, and stability tests for:
  • trading cores
  • pricing engines
  • real-time message pipelines
• Detect bottlenecks, resource leaks, deadlocks

Quality Engineering & Analysis

• Analyze business requirements, trading/risk logic, and code to ensure full test coverage of critical flows.
• Work with developers and quants to identify root causes, validate fixes, and improve system resilience.
• Build tools to automate operational testing tasks and regression checks.

Automation Operations

• Ensure reliability of tests in distributed environments with eventually consistent data.
• Maintain and improve AI framework.

Essential

• Extensive experience in test automation and software development (5+ years preferred).
• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Strong experience with AI tools and agentic approach.
• Strong understanding of:
  • concurrent systems
  • distributed microservices
  • event-driven architectures
• Experience testing systems that use:
  • API (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
  • Message brokers (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams)
• Deep understanding of software testing principles:
  functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, non-functional requirements.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (profiling, metrics, logs, distributed tracing).
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of the Forex trading domain, including:
  • order types
  • execution models (A-book/B-book)
  • market data (ticks, L2)
  • risk systems (margin, exposure)
• Experience testing FIX protocol integrations.
• Experience with:
  • Docker/Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • monitoring/observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)