Quality Engineer - Front Ends (12 month FTC)

TMX Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Trayport in London is seeking a Quality Engineer to partner with developers, product owners and DevOps to deliver high-quality, customer-focused software for trading platforms.

You will drive shift-left and exploratory testing, contribute to test automation, and help design observability and release strategies to ensure stability in production.

This role offers opportunities to influence architecture, modernise test environments and coach colleagues in quality practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software quality and exploratory testing.
• Able to understand complex distributed architectures.
• Interest in technical with passion for technology.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills; understands testing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Shift-left and drive a 'Quality-by-Design' culture in requirements analysis and architecture reviews.
• Design risk-based test strategies and perform exploratory testing.
• Contribute to automation to maintain quality coverage.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering to integrate quality gates into CI/CD.
• Lead initiatives to modernise test environments and release strategies.
• Document development and test activities to a high standard.

Skills

Quality engineering

Exploratory testing

IaC & Docker/Kubernetes

User stories & acceptance criteria

Tools

C#/.Net

TypeScript

React

PowerShell

Docker

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Grafana

GitHub Copilot

Job description

The Role Quality Engineers are at the heart of every Development team in Trayport and are key to the delivery of our software. Candidates are passionate about delivering high quality software, always having our customers at the centre providing the best user experience possible. As much as they love the challenge of finding defects or investigating issues, they are constantly thinking of ways to prevent them in the first place. Quality Engineers at Trayport take ownership of all aspects of quality, from ideation all the way through to monitoring in production. From requirements and architecture to CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and production observability, our QEs ensure our systems are resilient, performant, and stable. Our Quality Engineers use a combination of shift-left and shift-right testing techniques, exploratory testing, technical testing and test automation to build quality into our software, working closely with the rest of their team and coaching others on how to write better software. For us, teamwork is everything. We listen to each other, we adapt, we evolve and we strive to innovate. We are making significant investments in our business and we will invest in you.

The Team Our team is responsible for development of modern mobile and web trading applications allowing traders from all over the world to access energy markets. We work closely with our customers to meet their needs in this dynamically evolving space. Our team is proud and passionate of their work with everyone working closely together to deliver high quality, customer focused software. We use the latest technologies and heavily invest in AI, constantly optimizing our workflows without compromising on quality.

Your role as a quality engineer is to collaborate closely with developers, product owners, DevOps and other departments to build high quality, client-centric products. You are the person who is aware of the latest trends and has the courage to incorporate them into our workflows. You are also a great team player caring for each other’s success and wellbeing. This role is ideal for someone who has some technical background and wants to go deeper. If you are interested in growing your career and developing your skillset in a supportive and friendly environment, we want to hear from you!

Our Tech Stack/Tools C# .Net TypeScript React PowerShell Docker Network testing tools Azure DevOps Splunk Elastic Search and Grafana GitHub Copilot

Responsibilities

• Shift-left and drive a 'Quality-by-Design' culture by actively participating in requirements analysis, architecture reviews, PRD and RFC reviews, identifying risks before the code is written
• Design risk based test strategies, plans and perform session based exploratory testing to find unique bugs at the correct quality level
• Actively contribute to automation to ensure and maintain comprehensive quality coverage
• Synthesize multiple sources of information to investigate and perform root cause analysis on issues
• Promote the use of AI in novel ways to support and optimize the team's processes and strategies
• Advocate for architectural changes that improve system testability
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring verification is a prerequisite for deployment
• Lead initiatives to modernise test environments to mirror production conditions
• Ensure all development and test documentation is written to a high standard, kept up to date, and circulated within the team
• Shift-right by designing and maintaining release strategies that prioritise system stability, such as canary deployments, feature flagging, and zero-downtime deployments
• Contribute to the design and implementation of observability strategies (metrics, logs, traces) that provide actionable insights into system health
• Use production telemetry to drive proactive improvements and performance tuning
• Actively grow our culture of quality and engage in quality-related topics across the organisation
• Act as a point of contact regarding product knowledge for various members of the business
• Design and run training sessions with other testers and developers across the company to share techniques and product knowledge
• Define and execute the quality strategy for your team, coaching and mentoring other team members to ensure software quality is considered throughout the development process

The Person

• A strong background in software quality and exploratory testing
• Ability to understand complex, distributed architectures
• Interested in all things technical with a passion for technology
• An inquisitive nature, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understands testing concepts, methodologies, and processes
• Proven capability to lead and contribute to complex technical architectural discussions
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with a diverse group of engineering and product stakeholders
• Experience contributing to user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Seeks opportunities to improve themselves and focuses on personal development.
• Basic understanding of practical networking concepts (TCP/IP) and containerised environments
• Interested in energy markets and their dynamics.
• Experienced in using data, metrics, and production logs to drive decision-making and investigations
• Understanding of modern infrastructure (IaC, Docker/Kubernetes) and the ability to contribute to build pipelines/scripting
• Committed to building deep domain knowledge to understand the impact of technical changes on our trading platforms and client workflows

Trayport is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.

Our Culture

At Trayport, our people power our success. We are a place where talented people never stop learning, innovating and working together to make an impact! We offer you more than a job - we offer you the opportunity to work with, and learn from the most respected industry and thought leaders in the business. We’re always pushing the boundaries, rapidly expanding our global presence across London, Vienna, Singapore, Bremen and North America. At Trayport, we understand that our people are crucial to our future. We strive to provide a challenging and inspirational atmosphere; employing intelligent, enthusiastic, adaptable individuals and giving them the freedom, training, and guidance to allow them to consistently achieve their potential.

If you share our vision and are motivated to challenge the status quo - we want to hear from you!