Test/Quality Analyst – Trading technologies recruitment

This position holder reports to the Quality Assurance Manager and is primarily responsible for conducting Quality Assurance testing of the trading platform applications including, functional, non-functional, integration and regression testing. In this role you will assist in the preparation of test plans, test cases, test scripts and be the primary testing resource for all release testing. This role also covers testing Automation that includes development and maintenance of User Interface (UI) automation scripts, API message automation scripts.

As well as the above you will also be involved in conducting end to end testing of trading platform, analyzing the results and reporting issues to the applications team, continually improving the Quality Assurance process and best practices. You will provide Test Estimates for projects and a constant feedback loop reassessing and updating the team accordingly using the cycle of testing as well as the development and maintenance of testing tools as well as applying industry standards.

This role allows you to become a subject matter expert in all areas of the system architecture whilst liaising with other internal departments.

To be considered for this role you will need the following skills and experience

• Minimum of 4 Years testing experience in large scale system.

• Experience with all aspects of testing including but not limited to Manual, Automated, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.

• Experience with automated test tools, such as QTP (or similar to QTP), VeriFIX

• Experience with test case management tools.

• Experience in data manipulation - UNIX / Linux Shell and Perl Scripting.

• Development experience in Java/C/C++ is desirable

• ISTQB foundation certification is desirable.

• Experience in FIX protocol is desirable but not mandatory.

• Knowledge with Exchange / Trading / Financial Markets.

This position offers an experienced Test Analyst a superb next step to work within a very established and progressive technical environment working on the latest trading technologies.

To learn more about this position please call Simon Payne on 2293 2355 or to apply please send your resume to spayne@astoncarter.com quoting Ref SP 1122