Senior Lead QA Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Volunteer days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group in Hyderabad is seeking an FX Trading Systems Senior QA Lead, Performance Testing to shape our performance testing strategy for robust backend systems powering a multi dealer FX platform.

You will lead a skilled QA team, be hands-on, design comprehensive test suites (soak, load, stress) and drive CI/CD integration while leveraging Java tooling and modern observability stacks to ensure high quality releases.

Qualifications

• Proven QA experience with performance testing.
• Strong knowledge of testing performance and scalability for trading systems.
• Expert-level Gatling and JMeter proficiency.
• Java development for test tooling and CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Shape performance testing strategy for backend trading systems.
• Lead a QA team focused on performance testing.
• Design and execute soak, load, stress tests and throughput analyses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver testing solutions.

Skills

Gatling

JMeter

Java

Cucumber-java

Spring

Kafka

Redis

ELK

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux shell

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Gatling

JMeter

Cucumber-java

Spring

Kafka

Redis

ELK

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Job description

FX Trading Systems Senior QA Lead, Performance Testing

Job Scope/Duties

• Shape the performance testing strategy for robust and scalable backend systems that power critical financial applications on a multi dealer FX Platform!
• You will work as a Senior Lead in Test Engineering within an elite delivery team.
• Be very hands on while leading a team of QA engineers focused on performance testing.
• Apply your understanding and expertise in performance testing methodologies to ensure high-quality, stable releases that meet non-functional requirements!
• Design and execute comprehensive performance test suites including soak, load, stress testing, and throughput analysis.
• Work closely with multi-functional teams to deliver innovative testing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the financial industry.
• Develop and maintain NFR calculations and performance benchmarks for trading systems.
• Drive the development of test engineering tooling using Java for the entire QA organization.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Proven experience
• Good understanding of trading systems architectures and how to effectively test them for performance and scalability.
• Excellent knowledge of QA principles for both Functional and Non-Functional testing.
• Expert-level proficiency with performance testing tools such as Gatling and JMeter.
• Strong experience in defining and implementing performance test strategies, including soak testing, load testing, stress testing, and throughput analysis.

Technology

• Proven experience as a QA engineer with performance testing focus, with at least 8-10 years in a senior testing role, preferably with an exchange, multi-dealer FX platform or a top tier bank.
• Strong Java development skills to build test engineering tooling, test doubles/simulators, and test reporting services.
• Must have used Cucumber-java as framework for 3+ years to deliver BDD style automated test cases and writing cucumber glue code.
• Experience with Spring framework for building test reporting services and other test tooling.
• Understanding of Kafka, Redis, ELK stack, Datadog for monitoring and analyzing performance metrics.
• Proficiency in analyzing and interpreting performance testing results to identify bottlenecks.
• Understanding of RTO/RPO and how to test them would be considered a huge positive.
• Experience with database performance testing and optimization (SQL and NoSQL databases).
• Have knowledge of AWS or Azure Cloud Environment.
• Understanding of docker and Kubernetes.
• Confident with Linux, including shell scripting.

Development Process

• Understands Agile process and metrics related to monitor the team
• Excellent at automating performance testing processes and recognizing potential improvement in testing methodologies
• Experience in establishing performance testing as part of CI/CD pipelines

Attitude

• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate performance testing strategies, issues, and results to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Go getter attitude and ability to balance quick iterative development with parallel elaboration on requirements.

Education

• Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related field.

Benefits

Work with elite global and diverse engineering team located in Singapore, Bangkok, London, New york and Bucharest

We are a diverse and inclusive organization LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions. Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.