Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview of team:

Quality Assurance team aims to provide an engineer-focused testing service with a small, experienced team across all front and middle office systems and processes, using automation to test efficiently and increase quality.

We work across all teams within technology, trading and other areas of the business, building the tools and processes necessary to ensure B2C2 can continue to innovate with quality quickly and create best-of-industry systems to clients and internally.

Scope of role:

As a quality assurance engineer you will spend time contributing to the build out of strategic functional and non-functional test frameworks and tooling, balancing this with prioritised release and project testing.

As a member of multiple agile teams as well as the QA horizontal, you will work closely with developers and business stakeholders, and your work will satisfy internal quality assurance goals as well as the visibility of testing required by internal and external stakeholders such as the risk team and regulators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and maintaining the regression test packs
• Contribution to the build out of tooling and test frameworks for functional and non-functional testing
• Ownership of testing and quality assurance for one or more project teams concurrently
• Delivery of system and system integration testing for releases
• Facilitation of user acceptance testing (UAT) for high risk projects
• Automated test build out to test new and existing systems and developments
• Reporting of testing to project stakeholders to enable gain testing sign off and help enable project sign off
• Assist support and development teams in reproduction and investigation of production issues, and testing of their subsequent fixes
• Assisting the head of QA in the organisation and management of business-focused manual test cases and the maintenance of automated test cases

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the company and the overall business objectives of B2C2.

Mandatory Skills:

• Development of test automation frameworks for complex systems
• Ability to code in Java and development of Java based test automation frameworks
• Building and using tooling for non-functional testing
• Test analysis test case creation with a risk-based focus
• Investigation of complex issues across a system stack

Preferred Skills :

• Test automation using Cucumber to define test cases, including UI automation
• Working knowledge of Python and Rust, adaptable to understanding and using other languages
• The application of test analysis to high frequency trading systems with a functional and non-functional focus
• Working knowledge of KDB and Q
• Use of AWS and kubernetes
• Knowledge of trading and middleware protocols and technologies including:
  • Redis
  • FIX protocol
  • REST APIs
  • Websockets
• A keen interest in trading systems and crypto