QA Automation (Trading Systems)

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Yerevan, ARM
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for real-time Forex and CFD trading systems, covering order execution, market data, risk calculations, pricing engines, and external integrations. Conduct stress, latency, throughput, and stability testing; identify bottlenecks and reliability issues; analyze requirements and trading logic; troubleshoot distributed systems; validate fixes; and improve regression and operational testing automation.
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Company Description

We believe the power of risk-driven investing can help anyone achieve a better life. And we’re here to make this potential a reality for an emerging global generation.  

We provide individuals in the world’s fast-developing economies with guidance, tools, and easy market access so they can trade and invest with confidence. We aim to make our clients their own wealth manager: empowered to create investment strategies and make investment decisions effortlessly, in their own time, on their own terms, in their own way.  

Our story goes back to the first days of online Forex trading - a pioneer of the Metatrader platform, Alpari, expanded rapidly in the world’s emerging markets and was joined in 2011 by our sister brand, FXTM. Now, we are adding further brands to our portfolio. Together, both brands have built a leading global presence in online trading serving over two million clients in 150 countries from regulated centres across four continents. 

Exinity is an energetic and diverse company with offices across Europe, Asia and Africa, and we’re always looking for talented individuals to join us. ‘Freedom to Succeed’ is not just a promise we make to our clients and partners, but to our people too. We’ll help you develop a range of skills, take on early responsibility, and enjoy a rewarding and fulfilling career with a fast-growing, dynamic company. 

Job Description

We are looking for a highly experienced QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our real-time trading systems in a global Forex/CFD environment.
You will work closely with developers, product teams, and dealing/risk departments to design robust automated testing frameworks for pricing, order execution, trading cores, market data feeds, risk engines, and integrations with external liquidity providers.

Responsibilities

Automated Testing

  • Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive automated test suites covering:

    • order execution flows

    • market data distribution

    • risk calculations

  • Build frameworks for deterministic simulation of trading scenarios and edge cases.

Performance & Stress Testing

  • Implement and manage stress, latency, throughput, and stability tests for:

    • trading cores

    • pricing engines

    • real-time message pipelines

  • Detect bottlenecks, resource leaks, deadlocks

Quality Engineering & Analysis

  • Analyze business requirements, trading/risk logic, and code to ensure full test coverage of critical flows.

  • Work with developers and quants to identify root causes, validate fixes, and improve system resilience.

  • Build tools to automate operational testing tasks and regression checks.

Automation Operations

  • Ensure reliability of tests in distributed environments with eventually consistent data.

  • Maintain and improve AI framework.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Extensive experience in test automation and software development (5+ years preferred).

  • Strong coding skills in Python.

  • Strong experience with AI tools and agentic approach.

  • Strong understanding of:

    • concurrent systems

    • distributed microservices

    • event-driven architectures

  • Experience testing systems that use:

    • API (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)

    • Message brokers (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams)

  • Deep understanding of software testing principles:
    functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, non-functional requirements.

  • Strong troubleshooting skills (profiling, metrics, logs, distributed tracing).

  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.

Nice to Have

  • Understanding of the Forex trading domain, including:

    • order types

    • execution models (A-book/B-book)

    • market data (ticks, L2)

    • risk systems (margin, exposure)

  • Experience testing FIX protocol integrations.

  • Experience with:

    • Docker/Kubernetes

    • GitLab CI/CD

    • monitoring/observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Skills Required

  • Extensive experience in test automation and software development, with 5+ years preferred
  • Strong coding skills in Python
  • Strong experience with AI tools and agentic approaches
  • Understanding of concurrent systems, distributed microservices, and event-driven architectures
  • Experience testing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs
  • Experience testing Kafka, NATS, or Redis Streams message brokers
  • Understanding of functional, integration, regression, performance, and non-functional testing
  • Strong troubleshooting skills involving profiling, metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently
  • Understanding of the Forex trading domain, including order types, execution models, market data, and risk systems
  • Experience testing FIX protocol integrations
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD
  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
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The Company
HQ: Dubai
890 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

In the fast-growing economies of the world, there’s a new generation of ambitious younger people eager to gain financial independence. And they’re turning to the world’s financial markets to achieve it. Exinity’s mission is to empower them to succeed. We design, engineer and market a growing range of innovative trading and investing products that meet their expectations for choice, creativity and control, and which are backed by risk management tools, education - and a great customer experience. For 25 years, Exinity has provided leveraged trading to some two million customers through global brands, including FXTM and Nemo. Exinity is an energetic and diverse company with central offices in the UAE, Cyprus and the UK - plus smaller offices in a number of countries. We’re always looking for talented individuals to join us. ‘Freedom to Succeed’ is not just a promise we make to our clients and partners, but to our people too. We’ll help you develop a range of skills, take on early responsibility, and enjoy a rewarding and fulfilling career with a fast-growing, dynamic company.

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