Project Description

Project for one of the global investment management firm founded in 1989 that manages approximately $40.33 billion in assets as of April 1, 2020. Firm has more than 2,400 employees with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Teams work collaboratively to drive the production of trading algorithm and financial strategies - the foundation of a sustainable, global trading platform. The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform. The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies. In particular: Building the components of a business-critical order management system using the most promising technologies and approaches for designing low-latency systems. High requirements are implied for the system's performance, fault tolerance and reliability. We are looking for a C++ expert developer experienced in building low-latency systems, familiar with different techniques on performance measurement, analysis and optimization. What we offer: • Flexible schedule • Possible business trips to NYC • Exciting challenges and unique experience in the one of the largest hedge funds • English courses • Various professional development programs • The friendly team of professionals; • Remote work from time to time in cases of need

Responsibilities

• Strong problem solving skills, troubleshoot inquiries and outages - should be able to work under pressure • Participate in the design, implementation, testing and deployment of large-scale systems and services • Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver software releases • Understand: - system dependencies and limitations - business needs and business area - large scale thinking and approach - low level design - resource-management techniques, how to prevent dangling pointers - inter-process communication design principles - fundamentals of networking • Team Player with the ability to work with development, support and QA teams • Take full ownership of and maintain a robust QA environment, including test databases and system deployments • Work closely with the global QA team to design and build integration tests • Work with developers on improving system testability and creating a testing environment • Experience with Java, good knowledge of its ecosystems • Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests • Familiarity with continuous integration • Experience with Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery • Working proficiency with Unix • Have the ability to solve complex problems with practical, maintainable, and scalable solutions. • Familiarity with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus a plus) • Excellent communication, documentation, and analytical skills; attention to detail, thoroughness and strong ownership of work • Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency, resourcefulness and independence • Be a self-starter, chase down blockers, and proactively finish projects in a timely manner. Nice-to-Have Skills: • Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds

Compensation rate for NY: 70000-150000 USD Gross.

Compensation for all other locations according to the local market.

Skills

Must have

• Good working knowledge on front-end (GUI) automation using tools like Selenium/Test Complete/Ranorex/UFT• Experience with Unix or Linux• Good working knowledge on coding languages like Java and/or Java Scripting• Good debugging/troubleshooting skills for test failure analysis• Must be willing to do manual testing when required.• Must be willing to maintain and execute Test Complete automation suites in a rotational basis.

Nice to have

• Back-end automation knowledge with Rest API and/or middleware message queues• Good communication skills.• Ready to work any test automation tools.

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior

Relocation package

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Vacancy Specialization

QA Automation

Ref Number

VR-82388