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Role: Senior QA Engineer Role Overview Senior QA Engineer responsible for quality assuring and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing. Whilst this role requires the execution of manual test cases, there is a programme of change to drive towards automated testing and therefore any experience in taking a manual test capability and driving to automation is advantageous Role Responsibilities Ensuring that resilient test frameworks are defined and produced in order to quality-assure code, ahead of deployment to the production environment L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate. Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes. Mentor junior members of the team. Ability to work with multiple remote regions. Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations. Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines. Experience / Competences Essential Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services. Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3 rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage Proven expertise in server-side Java design and development within banking and trading environments Messaging QA Experience : Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows - MQ, XML, FIXML. Very detail orientated, understands the impact of getting it wrong FIX Protocol : Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge) in eg FX/Credit/Commodities Trading environments Middleware : Working knowledge of Solace messaging middleware Cloud Platforms : Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS) CI/CD : Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration Operating Systems : Strong Linux administration and command-line skills Database : SQL experience and database management Testing : JUnit and related unit testing frameworks Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments. Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum). Desired Deep understanding of FX/Credit/Commodities products and financial instruments. Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems Frameworks : Spring Boot and Google Guice dependency injection Observability : Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and metrics Testing : Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing Infrastructure : Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code Caching : Hazelcast distributed caching solutions
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