We are currently seeking a self-motivated, creative and talented Automation Test Engineer who will thrive on exposing issues and improving the quality of our state-of-the-art trading applications. Automation Test Engineers are constantly challenged to understand complex trading strategies, uncover software issues in our trading platform through testing and provide feedback that can help enhance our end-user experience. The role will primarily focus on supporting the automated trading tools that our product offers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and execute test plans and test cases based on software requirements and technical design specs
• Assist in reproducing, investigating and debugging software issues in coordination with the Development team
• Recommend product improvements, usability enhancements or corrections in coordination with Product Management team
• Collaborate with a team of testers to constantly improve and enhance each other’s skill sets and arsenal of test tools
• Update the automation framework to support new features or fix automation issues
• Manually test new features thoroughly before automation is developed
• Responsible for testing product releases via a combination of system-level automated and manual tests

Qualifications:

• At least 2 years experience with Python is required
• 3-5 years’ experience with scripting automation tests
• Strong analytical skills and commitment to continuous testing improvement
• Must understand the testing and development lifecycle methodologies.
• Knowledge of the financial industry and trading systems is a plus
• Automation framework development skills are a plus
• Knowledge and previous coding experience with an object-oriented language
• Working knowledge of Selenium a plus