Senior Automation Engineer

TP ICAP; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Belfast is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to modernize the automated testing framework and automate post-deployment testing. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with equity products and proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java within a low latency trading environment. This role involves leading various testing phases and ensuring quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in automated testing of equity products in global financial services.
• Experience with low latency trading systems.
• Proficiency in programming and equity market structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing of trading applications.
• Maintain automated test cases and frameworks.
• Serve as third-tier support for production issues.

Skills

Automated testing

Python

Java

SQL

Linux

Agile lifecycle

Low latency trading

Tools

AWS

FIX protocol

Messaging systems

Job description

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Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Since our founding in 1999, our network has grown to include more than 1,000 institutional investors that collectively manage $33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets. Our network spans 46 markets across six continents. We built Liquidnet to make global capital markets more efficient and continue to do so by adding additional participants, enabling trusted access to trading and investment opportunities, and delivering the actionable intelligence and insight that our customers need.

Role Overview:

The Senior Automation Engineer (SAE), in this role will be responsible for the modernization of our existing automated testing framework as well as the automation of post-deployment smoke tests in production. The ATS is a complex and distributed system. A wide ranging QA/DevOps skillset will be required in order to perform automated testing of the ATS platform and push this significant transformation of the SDLC forward. This role will include ongoing automated testing, making enhancements to the automated testing framework and the design and implementation of the production automated smoke test tooling.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead functional, regression, integration, and performance testing of trading applications
• Design, write, execute and maintain automated test cases for trading applications
• Make enhancements to existing automated testing framework
• Implementation of production automated smoke test tooling
• Contribute to the overall progress of the team and the firm; ensure timely delivery of quality software
• Serve as third-tier support for production issues and related support needs

Experience / Competences:

• 5+ years of experience in automated testing of equity products in a global financial services company or vendor using Python, Java or similar programming language
• 5+ years of experience in testing of capacity and latency sensitive trading systems
• Experience and knowledge of equity products and instruments including FIX protocol and market data
• Proficiency with computer technologies including Linux, SQL, Messaging & Distributed Systems
• Knowledge of equity market structure, order handling and electronic trading
• Experience of the full software development agile lifecycle in a technical role
• Experience supporting low latency trading systems built with C++ or similar programming language
• Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams
• Experience migrating and managing applications on AWS