Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist

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

Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist

At a Glance

• Individual contributor QA role at a high-growth prediction markets trading firm
• Core stack: Java, Python, FIX, SQL, Cucumber, Playwright, JUnit
• Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual bonus
• 3+ years experience required, financial services testing background preferred
• Central role in quality for a CFTC regulated exchange and clearing platform

About the Company

Our client is a specialist prediction markets trading firm, operating at the frontier of financial markets in partnership with major institutional players. They are building the premier prediction market platform, empowering traders to take positions on real-world events and generating market-driven forecasts for decision makers. The platform sits behind a CFTC regulated exchange and clearing business, and the engineering team is lean, highly skilled, and building infrastructure that operates at genuine exchange scale.

The Role

As Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist you will be a key technical contributor driving quality across the firm's instrument management systems. You will carry out hands‑on manual testing of internal and customer‑facing interfaces, build out front‑end automation coverage, and extend the QA automation framework to ensure the seamless orchestration of instrument listings and settlement instructions. This is a detail‑focused role for an engineer who wants to work closely with Product and Engineering to enforce rigorous quality standards across a regulated, high‑stakes trading platform, and to be central to delivering a reliable, high‑performance service.

Key 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

What You’ll Need

Essential:

• 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)

Desirable / Nice to Have:

• Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets
• Exposure to testing regulated exchange or clearing infrastructure

Why Apply?

• Competitive base salary plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus
• Central role in quality for a CFTC regulated exchange and clearing platform, not a ticket‑driven testing role
• Genuine ownership of front‑end and back‑end automation strategy across instrument management, exchange and clearing systems
• Full‑time, in‑person hybrid working model
• Pension plan with employer match, plus health, vision and dental cover
• Generous paid time off and wellbeing support
• Join a high‑growth prediction markets trading firm working alongside major institutional partners
• Inclusive, values‑led workplace that invests in career development