QA Automation Engineer

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)