Senior Test Engineer — Mission-Critical Trading Automation

Australian Securities Exchange; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Job summary

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney seeks a senior QA/Test Engineer to validate high-availability trading and market infrastructure. You will design test cases, automate where possible and drive quality in complex multi-protocol environments.

You will analyse requirements, manage defects, report metrics and contribute to improvement initiatives in a hybrid work setting. Flexible arrangements and a strong brand support your delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in software testing within complex, mission-critical, high-availability systems.
• Experience testing distributed, event-driven or real-time transaction processing systems.
• Experience testing systems that communicate using multiple protocols and interfaces, including FIX, APIs, messaging platforms, file-based integrations.
• Experience analysing message flows, system interactions and data transformations across integrated platforms.
• Strong system, system integration, end-to-end, regression and release testing experience.
• Experience working in highly regulated or operationally critical industries such as financial markets, banking, payments or similar complex environments.
• Experience investigating and troubleshooting production-like issues using logs, message tracing, databases and monitoring tools.
• Experience with SQL and reconciliation of large and complex datasets.
• Experience working within CI/CD delivery environments.
• Experience with test automation frameworks, automation strategy and automated test execution.
• Experience using Linux/Unix environments and command-line tools.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and modern test management practices.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for validating highly available, mission-critical trading and market infrastructure systems.
• Analyse business, functional and technical requirements to ensure completeness, quality and testability.
• Design, review and execute test cases, test scenarios and test suites.
• Perform functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression and operational readiness testing.
• Validate trading workflows, order management and market data processing across applicable interfaces and protocols.
• Prepare and manage test data, environment dependencies and execution readiness activities.
• Identify, investigate, document and track defects through to resolution.
• Provide test execution reporting, quality metrics and release evidence.
• Participate in risk assessments, test planning, estimations and release readiness reviews.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the QE&T Community of Practice.
• Learn and use automation tools provided by external vendors and developed internally.
• Design, build and maintain a test automation suite.
• Improve productivity by using employer-approved AI tools in test engineering.

Skills

Software testing

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney seeks a senior QA/Test Engineer to validate high-availability trading and market infrastructure. You will design test cases, automate where possible and drive quality in complex multi-protocol environments.

You will analyse requirements, manage defects, report metrics and contribute to improvement initiatives in a hybrid work setting. Flexible arrangements and a strong brand support your delivery.