Senior QA Automation/Manual with Trade lifecycle

Luxoft; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a QA Lead to manage testing for a trading platform. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in both manual and automated testing, particularly in the financial sector. Strong leadership skills and expertise in testing tools such as Selenium and Postman are essential. Join a dynamic team to enhance product quality in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UI and backend testing (manual & automation).
• 2+ years of experience in leading QA teams or mentoring junior testers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the QA team and mentor junior testers.
• Perform manual and automation testing of trading platform.
• Work collaboratively across multiple teams.

Skills

Manual and automation testing expertise

Proficiency in functional, regression, and integration testing

Experience with Selenium WebDriver or similar

Understanding of microservices architecture

Proficiency in JavaScript for test automation

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Leadership and team management

Experience in Agile/Scrum environment

Tools

Postman

RestAssured

Cucumber

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Project description

Building a trading platform for innovative international top-tier hedge fund from the ground up, comprising of front‑office system for traders, pre‑trade checks and analysis, intra‑day positions management, order management and routing, risks and limits management, reports of trading activities, FIX connectivity, market data providers connectivity (e.g. Bloomberg B‑pipe).

Responsibilities

• QA will work across multiple teams including developers, devOps, other QA. Interaction with business stakeholders, end‑users, developers, and other QA. Lead the Team. Manual API testing. Analyzing logs and test results. Work on backend automation. Creation test cases in TestRail. Be pro‑active in terms of process building. Manual testing of desktop application (trading platform).

SKILLS

Must have

• Technical Skills: Testing Expertise: Strong experience in manual and automation testing of both UI and backend (APIs, java microservices). Proficiency in functional, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end (E2E) testing. UI Testing (Manual & Automation): Hands‑on experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress for UI test automation. Experience in testing UI built with React or similar. Backend & API Testing: Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman, RestAssured. Basic experience in database validation (SQL & NoSQL) for backend data consistency. Microservices & Messaging Systems: Understanding of microservices architecture and service‑to‑service communication. Experience with Kafka‑based event‑driven systems (testing producers/consumers, validating messages). Automation & Programming: Proficiency JavaScript for test automation. Experience with Cucumber, or BDD frameworks. Ability to build and maintain test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing. Unix/Linux & Scripting: Strong experience working with Unix/Linux environments for log analysis, process monitoring, and debugging. Ability to write shell scripts for automation tasks. Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills. Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment. Excellent communication skills to collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams. Experience in writing detailed test cases, test plans, and defect reports. Leadership & Team Management Skills: Experience leading QA teams, mentoring testers, and driving best practices. Ability to define testing strategies, prioritize test efforts, and improve overall QA processes. Experience in collaborating with developers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure high‑quality releases. Strong decision‑making skills and ability to coordinate testing efforts in an Agile environment. Experience in hiring, training, and performance reviews for QA team members. Ability to drive automation initiatives and ensure alignment with business goals. Experience: 5+ years of experience in UI and backend testing (manual & automation). 2+ years of experience in leading QA teams or mentoring junior testers. Experience testing microservices, APIs, event‑driven systems, and web applications.

Nice to have

business domain experience (Trading, FIX protocol). Experience integrating automated tests into Jenkins/Azure CI/CD. Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. Experience with JMeter, Gatling for performance testing.