Equity Trading Front-Office SDET Automation Engineer

Jefferies; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferies is seeking an SDET Automation Engineer for its Equity Trading Platform within the Global Equities Front Office technology team in Hong Kong. The role involves building and extending an automated testing framework to validate Cash Equities trading platforms and to cover system/regression, regulatory and volume testing for local platforms.

You will work with colleagues overseas to implement broader solutions, require deep Python experience (including multi-threading) and familiarity with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Python (3.x), including multi-threading and performance tuning.
• Knowledge / Experience of implementing software using the FIX protocol.
• Knowledge / Experience of implementing software using Java (Spring framework).
• Knowledge of the cash equities trading area including European market structure.
• Knowledge / Experience of BDD techniques, experience with Cucumber, JIRA, Bamboo and/or Jenkins.
• Experience with Unix or Linux scripting.
• Experience with testing frameworks, Agile Development Techniques, Unit/System Testing and Performance Testing.
• Basic database query (SQL) experience.
• Experience with C++ include templates and generics an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Working alongside Front Office development and QA teams to extend/manage the framework.
• Capture and understand how to interface/integrate with the individual platforms.
• Plan and develop new features requested by the business.
• Manage priorities in cooperation with the development leads for each platform and colleagues overseas.
• Assist the Global QA teams in the use of the testing framework.
• Document usage of the testing framework.

Skills

Python

Multi-threading

Java (Spring)

SQL

Unix/Linux scripting

C++ templates

Financial domain knowledge

BDD techniques

Tools

Cucumber

JIRA

Bamboo

Jenkins

Job description

Jefferies is seeking an SDET Automation Engineer for its Equity Trading Platform within the Global Equities Front Office technology team in Hong Kong. The role involves building and extending an automated testing framework to validate Cash Equities trading platforms and to cover system/regression, regulatory and volume testing for local platforms.

You will work with colleagues overseas to implement broader solutions, require deep Python experience (including multi-threading) and familiarity with