Frontend QA Engineer - Trading Platform (Hybrid)

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan with employer match

Health, vision and dental cover

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist for a high-growth prediction markets trading firm. You will conduct manual testing, build front-end automation with Playwright, and extend the QA framework to cover instrument listings and settlement workflows.

You will work with Product and Engineering to enforce quality standards in a regulated, exchange-scale environment, with a focus on delivering a reliable, high-performance service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• 3+ years experience in a QA or software testing role, ideally within financial services.
• Experience with testing tools such as Cucumber, Playwright and JUnit, with familiarity in test reporting and analysis.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, FIX and SQL.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities at once.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Right to work in the UK on a permanent, indefinite basis (no visa sponsorship available)

Responsibilities

• Execute manual and exploratory testing across the Instrument Management, Exchange and Clearing platform interfaces, validating UI/UX responsiveness, accessibility and critical user workflows.
• Design and maintain comprehensive test cases for administrative and operations interfaces, covering functional correctness and edge cases.
• Build and maintain the front-end automation suite in Playwright to ensure regression stability across modern web interfaces.
• Develop back-end automation to validate Admin and Customer facing REST and Websocket API endpoints.
• Develop back-end end-to-end testing to validate critical system workflows.
• Integrate automated test suites into the CI/CD pipeline to enable rapid, reliable deployment cycles.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define and enforce rigorous quality standards.
• Monitor test platform performance, data integrity and security compliance to meet the demands of a regulated exchange.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Independent work

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Cucumber

Playwright

JUnit

Java

Python

FIX

SQL

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist for a high-growth prediction markets trading firm. You will conduct manual testing, build front-end automation with Playwright, and extend the QA framework to cover instrument listings and settlement workflows.

You will work with Product and Engineering to enforce quality standards in a regulated, exchange-scale environment, with a focus on delivering a reliable, high-performance service.