Senior QA Engineer

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

Senior QA Engineer responsible for quality assuring and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing.  Whilst this role requires the execution of manual test cases, there is a programme of change to drive towards automated testing and therefore any experience in taking a manual test capability and driving to automation is advantageous

Role Responsibilities

• Ensuring that resilient test frameworks are defined and produced in order to quality-assure code, ahead of deployment to the production environment

• L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate.

• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes.

• Mentor junior members of the team.

• Ability to work with multiple remote regions.

• Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations.

• Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services.  Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage

• Proven expertise in server-side Java design and development within banking and trading environments

• Messaging QA Experience: Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows – MQ, XML, FIXML.   Very detail orientated, understands the impact of getting it wrong

• FIX Protocol: Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge)  in eg FX/Credit/Commodities Trading environments

• Middleware: Working knowledge of Solace messaging middleware

• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS)

• CI/CD: Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration

• Operating Systems: Strong Linux administration and command-line skills

• Database: SQL experience and database management

• Testing: JUnit and related unit testing frameworks

• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments.

• Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum).

Desired

• Deep understanding of FX/Credit/Commodities products and financial instruments.

• Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems

• Frameworks: Spring Boot and Google Guice dependency injection

• Observability: Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and metrics

• Testing: Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing

• Infrastructure: Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code

• Caching: Hazelcast distributed caching solutions

• Containerization: Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience

Band & Level – Manager, 6

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Not The Perfect Fit?

Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us.

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement. 

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