QA Automation Engineer
Website Trading Technologies
Futures Trading Platform
We are currently seeking a self-motivated, creative and talented Automation Engineer – Contractor who will thrive on exposing issues and improving the quality of our state of the art trading applications. Automation Test Engineers are constantly challenged to understand complex trading strategies, uncover software issues in our trading platform through testing and to provide feedback that can help enhance our end user experience.
For this role, we are looking for an individual to help ramp up our automated test coverage for our various areas of functionality within our TT trading platform.
What Will You Be Involved With?
- Working closely with the Test Engineering team, you will receive support to help you understand our test automation framework and functional use cases and implement automated test coverage using Python.
- Learn our homegrown system-level test framework, understand the current test coverage and gaps, and work to help script tests to fill the gaps.
- Responsible for testing order and price feeds and validating the communication and functionality between the TT platform and the various Exchanges that TT supports worldwide
- Assists in reproducing, investigating, and reporting software issues in close coordination with the Development team
- Recommend product improvements, usability corrections, or enhancements in coordination with the Product Management team
- Collaborate with a team of testers to constantly improve and enhance each other’s skill sets and arsenal of test tools
- Work to improve the quality of high-performance software testing for enterprise trading applications.
- Use FIX protocols to understand send and receive messages across servers for debugging purposes.
What Will You Bring to the Table?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Information Technology
- Strong Experience with Python required
- 2+ years experience with scripting automated test cases
- Experience working in the financial industry, Futures trading systems, or TT software is a strong plus
- Knowledge of FIX Protocol a strong plus
- Experience with Linux, a strong plus
- Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and test engineering principles and processes
- Strong analytical skills and commitment to continuous testing improvement
What We Bring to the Table
- Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking
- Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
- 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, one day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during a milestone year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents), and backup child and pet care as well as tutoring services
- The company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses
- Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums and healthy meal delivery programs)
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
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