QA Automation Engineer - Trading Systems

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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)

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