About the job
FX Trading Systems Senior QA Lead, Performance Testing
Job Scope/Duties
- Shape the performance testing strategy for robust and scalable backend systems that power critical financial applications on a multi dealer FX Platform
- You will work as a Senior Lead in Test Engineering within an elite delivery team.
- Be very hands on while leading a team of QA engineers focused on performance testing.
- Apply your understanding and expertise in performance testing methodologies to ensure high-quality, stable releases that meet non-functional requirements
- Design and execute comprehensive performance test suites including soak, load, stress testing, and throughput analysis.
- Work closely with multi-functional teams to deliver creative testing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the financial industry.
- Develop and maintain NFR calculations and performance benchmarks for trading systems.
- Drive the development of test engineering tooling using Java for the entire QA organization.
Qualifications/Requirements
Proven experience




- Good understanding of trading systems architectures and how to effectively test them for performance and scalability.
- Excellent knowledge of QA principles for both Functional and Non-Functional testing.
- Expert-level proficiency with performance testing tools such as Gatling and JMeter.
- Strong experience in defining and implementing performance test strategies, including soak testing, load testing, stress testing, and throughput analysis.
Technology
- Proven experience as a QA engineer with performance testing focus, with at least 8-10 years in a senior testing role, preferably with an exchange, multi-dealer FX platform or a top tier bank.
- Strong Java development skills to build test engineering tooling, test doubles/simulators, and test reporting services.
- Must have used Cucumber-java as framework for 3+ years to deliver BDD style automated test cases and writing cucumber glue code.
- Experience with Spring framework

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