Business Development-APAC - Engineer - Quality Assurance

Interactive Brokers; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 420,000 - 780,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant

Annual performance-based bonus

Health & welfare benefits

Daily lunch in-house

Hybrid work arrangement

Career progression

Job summary

Interactive Brokers is seeking an Acceptance Testing Analyst / QA Engineer to join our APAC Project & Product Development Team in Hong Kong. You will review releases impacting Hong Kong clients, validate testing, and draft test plans to support deliveries.

You will collaborate across engineering and delivery teams, perform CI/QA/production tests, raise issues, and help maintain testing environments. Prior brokerage QA experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven software QA and UAT experience.
• 2+ years in Brokerage/Financial Services preferred.
• Programming skills and database experience advantageous.
• Strong verbal and written English communication.
• Attention to detail and results-oriented.
• Self-starter who works well independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Review market- and client-facing releases impacting Hong Kong clients; ensure requirements are documented and testing results recorded.
• Create and execute test plans; coordinate with programming teams and delivery contributors.
• Perform CI, QA, and PROD tests; document results and raise defects with priorities.
• Maintain testing environments; escalate blockers and support testing processes across teams.

Skills

QA experience

UAT

Brokerage exposure

Programming

Databases

English communication

Attention to detail

Self-starter

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Job description

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), a member of the S&P 500, is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in over 15 countries. Through its affiliates, Interactive Brokers provides automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies.

For more than four decades, Interactive Brokers has focused on technology, automation, and innovation to provide clients worldwide with a sophisticated, unified platform to manage their investment portfolios. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors, and introducing brokers.

Our culture is driven by problem‑solving, efficiency, and continuous improvement. We look for individuals who are intellectually curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to technology that helps simplify and enhance access to global financial markets. Interactive Brokers has consistently been recognized as a top broker by respected industry sources including Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and others.

You will be part of a team not only building one of the world’s strongest trading and brokerage brands, but also that uses technology in all aspects of its business to generate prudent, controlled growth.

Position

We are actively seeking a talented and experienced Acceptance Testing Analyst / QA Engineer to join our APAC Project & Product Development Team, headquartered in Hong Kong. The team engages in a wide range of subjects with an overall goal of identifying & delivering solutions that will generate business growth, improve client experience, and resolve problem areas for existing business.

Role Responsibilities

• Review all market‑and client‑facing software releases impacting Hong Kong clients to:
  • Ensure requirements have been clearly documented
  • Validate that sufficient testing has been performed & results recorded
  • Engage programming teams & delivery contributors to clarify any questions or flag if there is a deficiency
  • Perform & document first‑hand testing, where appropriate/necessary
  • Create bugs or enhancement recommendations to resolve functional issues and to ensure a smooth and satisfactory client experience
  • Maintain a complete record of the relevant releases and testing performed
• Contribute to the delivery of the teams’ projects by:
  • Actively participating in solution design/validation discussions to flag scenarios that should be considered
  • Capturing existing workflows to support requirement gathering and wireframing.
  • Highlighting known releases that perform desired functions and could be used to support a project’s solution
  • Drafting test plans to support deliveries
  • Configuring test accounts, systems & scenarios to support test plans and engaging programming teams for support, when needed.
  • Performing CI, QA, alpha PROD or PROD tests of the project teams deliveries
  • Documentation of QA and PROD test results of each test cycle to be used later as reference.
  • Raising any bugs identified and follow up with delivery managers and programming teams to ensure the bugs are prioritized and addressed.
  • Test Environment support, raise issues and follow up with stakeholders to resolve.
• Escalate blockers preventing the completion of testing or causing delays to delivery managers.
• Manage the tools & processes required to support the testing function within the team:
  • Ensure the testing queue is completed in a timely manner & regularly prioritized
  • Proactively identify & gain access to environments, systems or configurations required to complete the queued testing
  • Create new & manage a library of test accounts required to perform regional testing
  • Make recommendations to improve the testing process & the practices of upstream contributors
  • Engage other testing teams globally to knowledge share & identify best practices
  • Contribute to the testing procedure development & testing templates.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Preferably bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline
• Proven experience in software QA and user acceptance testing
• Ideally 2+ years in Brokerage and/or Financial Service
• Programming skills and experience with databases would be advantageous
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English with the confidence to engage colleagues throughout the organization
• Attention to detail, organizational skills, follow-through and results‑oriented
• Must be a self‑starter with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Able to work at a fast pace both independently and as part of a team

Company Benefits

• Competitive Salary, annual performance‑based bonus and stock grant
• Excellent health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, specialist and inpatient
• Competitive package of Annual Leave
• Daily lunch ordered in‑house with a fully stocked kitchen
• Great work‑life balance
• Unique opportunity to gain exposure to global financial products, markets and clientele
• Opportunities for career progression and job scope expansion in a global company with a growing local presence
• Hybrid work arrangement role permitting