QA Engineer – Trading Applications & FIX Protocol

We are looking for an experienced Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer with a strong background in financial services and trading applications. The role involves working with Agile development teams to ensure the quality, stability, and reliability of banking and trading applications through rigorous test planning, execution, and release validation.

• Review and analyse business requirements and user stories to identify testing requirements and assess testability
• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data across multiple environments
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing for trading and financial applications
• Perform FIX Protocol testing and validate order management, market connectivity, client connectivity, and execution management workflows
• Identify, document, track, and manage defects using Jira and other testing tools
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and support teams to investigate and resolve defects
• Perform API testing and validate JSON and XML messages
• Conduct database testing and validate data integrity across interconnected systems
• Support application releases through post-deployment testing and production validation

• Proven experience as a QA Engineer or Software Tester within the financial services industry, preferably in trading applications
• Mandatory hands-on experience with FIX Protocol
• Good understanding of Order Management Systems (OMS), market and client connectivity, and Execution Management Systems (EMS)
• Experience in functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Experience in API testing and database testing
• Ability to analyse and troubleshoot JSON and XML files/messages
• Scripting or programming experience in C#, Java, VB.NET, or another programming language
• Experience working in Agile environments and familiarity with QA methodologies
• Hands-on experience with Jira for defect tracking and test management