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Test Engineer

 

Website Trading Technologies

Futures Trading Platform

We are currently seeking a self-motivated, creative and talented Software Test Engineer for our Test Engineering team. An ideal candidate thrives on exposing issues and improving the quality of our state-of-the-art trading applications. Test Engineers are constantly challenged to understand complex trading systems, uncover software issues in our trading platform through testing, provide feedback that can help enhance our end-user experience, and provide information about usability to stakeholders in the organization. 

 

What Will You Be Involved With?
  • Design, develop and execute test plans and test cases based on software requirements and technical design specs.
  • Assist in reproducing, investigating and debugging software issues in coordination with the Development team.
  • Recommend product improvements, usability enhancements or corrections 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.
  • Design and Update the automation framework to support new features or fix automation issues.
  • Manually test new features thoroughly before automation is developed
  • Responsible for testing product releases via a combination of system-level automated and manual tests.. 

 

What Will You Bring to the Table?
  • 3+ years experience with developing and running automated tests using python language.
  • Experience working in the financial industry specifically in Trade surveillance or Compliance or Market Abuse monitoring systems is a big plus.
  • Experience in developing automation for big data testing, including data ingestion, data processing, and data migration, is highly desirable.
  • Experience testing web applications and using Linux preferred 
  • Experience working with AWS cloud services preferred
  • Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and test engineering principles and processes
  • Strong analytical skills and commitment to continuous testing improvement
  • Strong expertise in REST API testing and SQL is required.
  • Familiarity with Playwright or other browser application testing frameworks is a significant advantage.

 

Benefits
  • Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 
  • Flexible work schedules – with hybrid work – the expectation of 2 days on-site
  • 21 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, 1 day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during milestone year, a robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, and generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents) 
  • Tech resources, including, a “rent-to-own” program where employees are eligible for a company-provided Mac/PC laptop and/or mobile phone of their choice; and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment, etc.
  • Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives 
  • Milestone anniversary bonuses
  • Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
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.

To apply for this job please visit tradingtechnologies.pinpointhq.com