Experienced Test Engineer – Financial Markets & Automation

ASX; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ASX is seeking a seasoned QA/Test Engineer to join the team in Australia. You will work across functional, integration and end-to-end testing, ensuring trading workflows and market data processing meet quality standards.

The role collaborates with developers, analysts and automation engineers to strengthen test coverage and drive release readiness. You will leverage Jira/Confluence for defect lifecycle, engage stakeholders, and contribute to QE&T practices in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years’ software testing experience in medium to large technology environments.
• Strong experience in functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Cloud Jira, Confluence and defect lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of test planning, estimation, execution and reporting.
• Ability to analyse requirements and identify test conditions and risks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience in Agile/DevOps and/or Waterfall delivery models.
• Experience or understanding of testing protocols such as FIX or API testing (Postman/SoapUI).
• Experience using SQL and reconciling large data sets.
• Understanding of Linux OS and Java with basic Linux commands.

Responsibilities

• Analyse business, functional and technical requirements to ensure completeness and testability.
• Design, review and execute test cases, scenarios and test suites.
• Perform functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression and production verification testing.
• Validate trading workflows, order management and market data processing across interfaces.
• Prepare and manage test data, environments and execution readiness.
• Identify, investigate and track defects through to resolution.
• Provide test execution reporting, quality metrics and release evidence.
• Collaborate with Automation Engineers to increase regression coverage.
• Participate in risk assessments, test planning and release readiness reviews.
• Contribute to continuous improvement within QE&T Community of Practice.
• Learn and use automation tools provided by vendors; use AI tools in testing.

Skills

Test planning

Test design

Agile / DevOps

Stakeholder comms

SQL

Linux basics

Java basics

Risk analysis

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Postman

SoapUI

Job description

ASX is seeking a seasoned QA/Test Engineer to join the team in Australia. You will work across functional, integration and end-to-end testing, ensuring trading workflows and market data processing meet quality standards.

The role collaborates with developers, analysts and automation engineers to strengthen test coverage and drive release readiness. You will leverage Jira/Confluence for defect lifecycle, engage stakeholders, and contribute to QE&T practices in a hybrid work environment.