Principal Quality Engineer

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer

City: Mumbai

Role & Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive QA strategy for global Equities trading platform
• Lead a team of QA engineers, providing technical mentorship and career development
• Design test automation frameworks for focusing on performance, reliability, and accuracy
• Establish quality metrics, testing standards, and best practices across the organization
• Collaborate with trading desk, and development teams to understand business requirements and trading strategies
• Implement testing processes for market data integration, order management, and execution algorithms
• Oversee performance testing, including latency analysis and capacity planning
• Drive continuous improvement in testing methodologies and tools
• Manage UAT processes with trading teams and key stakeholders for front to back initiatives
• Lead incident reviews and implement preventive measures

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of software QA experience, strictly in financial services
• 7+ years of experience leading QA teams in trading systems or similar high-stakes environments
• Strong understanding of global financial markets, trading systems, and market data
• Expert knowledge of automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/deployment
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java or C#
• Strong background in test automation tools and frameworks
• Automation background with Windows desktop GUI applications (i.e. not just web automation like Selenium).
• Experience with Ranorex, UFT , TestComplete or similar test automation software is preferred
• Execute end-to-end automation test scripts and interpret test data and test results.
• Experience with Git and build tools (Maven or Gradle).
• Experience Unix/Linux shell scripting, open-source tools, Jenkins, SQL and database technologies.
• Deep understanding of FIX protocol and other financial messaging standards
• Handson with GitLab, Jenkins/Gitlab CI

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