QA Engineer _ Global Markets

Position Full time: QA Engineer _ Global Markets

Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)

Duration: FULL TIME

Exp: 8 + Years

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in manual and/or automation testing of enterprise-grade applications.

• Good understanding of Global Banking & Financial Markets domain, including Capital Markets and Investment Banking.

• Experience in testing workflows related to trade lifecycle (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office).

• Knowledge of asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX, and Commodities.

• Familiarity with trade processing systems, order management systems (OMS), and risk & settlement systems.

• Experience in validating trade capture, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation processes.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and database testing for large transactional datasets.

• Hands-on experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST services, FIX protocol understanding is a plus).

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools like JIRA, ALM, or similar.

• Understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies.

• Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright (preferred).

• Familiarity with messaging systems like MQ/Kafka used in market data and trade processing.

• Awareness of financial regulations (MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, Basel III) is an advantage.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

• Good communication skills with the ability to interact with global stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Analyze business and functional requirements related to global markets and trading platforms.

• Design and execute test cases covering trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, and settlement workflows.

• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing for capital market applications.

• Validate end-to-end trade processing, including trade capture, enrichment, validation, and settlement.

• Work with market data feeds and validate pricing, reference data, and transaction data flows.

• Identify, log, track, and manage defects, ensuring timely resolution.

• Collaborate with traders, business analysts, developers, and operations teams.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint deliverables.

• Execute API, database, and message-based testing for distributed systems.

• Support UAT testing, release validation, and production sanity checks.

• Perform data reconciliation and reporting validation across systems.

• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and audit requirements.

• Proactively identify risks, escalate issues, and drive them toward resolution.

• Provide status updates on testing progress, deliverables, and quality metrics initiatives

Regards,

Ashish Rastogi | Sr. Technical Recruiter

Tel: +1-630-536-8202 Ext. 5578 Dir: +1-630-937-0278

ashish.rastogi@q1tech.com | www.q1tech.com | LinkedIn

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