Senior Associate - Manual QA

Job purpose

Looking for a Manual QA engineer with strong Capital Markets and Fixed Income domain expertise to drive functional, integration, and end-to-end testing across trading, post-trade, and investment management platforms. The role focuses on ensuring application quality, business rule accuracy, data consistency, and regulatory compliance across fixed income workflows, including bonds, treasuries, corporate debt, market data, reference data, and trade processing systems spanning both legacy and modern technology environments. Should be comfortable working across business, product, QA, and engineering teams while driving test execution, defect resolution, and overall quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Perform functional, system, integration, and end-to-end testing across fixed income applications
• Validate complete trade lifecycle events across asset classes including trade capture, order management, execution, confirmation, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, and reporting.
• Perform testing of derivative products and workflows including Options, Swaps, Futures, and Forwards.
• Validate business workflows covering bonds, treasuries, corporate debt, and other fixed income instruments
• Verify trade booking, valuations, cashflows, margin processing, lifecycle events, and settlement workflows across asset classes.
• Create, execute, and maintain comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and regression test suites
• Perform requirement analysis and ensure test coverage aligned with business and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with business analysts, traders, product owners, and development teams to validate business functionality
• Support testing across legacy platforms and modern cloud-based applications

Key competencies

• Strong experience in Manual Testing methodologies and QA best practices
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Strong experience in test case design, defect management, and regression testing
• Deep domain knowledge of Capital Markets with expertise in Fixed Income products and workflows
• Experience validating trade lifecycle processes including order management, execution, allocations, settlements, and reporting
• Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test case generation, requirement analysis, defect investigation, test documentation, and test data preparation

Nice to Have

• Exposure to test management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA, ALM, or similar tools
• Experience with market data, reference data, pricing, and security master validation
• Understanding of fixed income analytics including yields, durations, coupon calculations, and bond pricing concepts
• Experience validating interfaces between front-office, middle-office, and back-office systems
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting and compliance processes relevant to capital markets environments
• Exposure to SQL for data validation and support of backend testing activities

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