Global QA Lead - Trading & Automation

Michael Page; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

Job summary

Michael Page International Italia S.r.l. cerca un QA leader in un contesto di system integrator orientato all’innovazione tecnologica nel settore finanziario.

La risorsa collaborerà con lo Head of QA per definire la strategia di test basata sul rischio e gestire priorità, copertura e criteri di rilascio. Si occuperà di evolvere l’automazione framework per web, API e backend, coprendo scenari di trading (order lifecycle, FIX) e test non funzionali (latenza, throughput).

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years in QA or software testing, including at least 2 years leading or mentoring a team.
• Experience building test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or equivalent; REST-assured, Postman or equivalent) and handing them over to teams.
• Performance, load and resilience testing (JMeter, Gatling or equivalent).
• CI/CD integration, quality gates, and containerised test environments.
• Test management in Jira (Xray, Zephyr or equivalent).
• Experience in regulated environments, with attention to traceability and evidence.
• Fluent English; Italian is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to risk-based test strategy set with Head of QA and apply it in day-to-day planning: priorities, coverage, regression approach, release exit criteria.
• Implement and evolve the automation framework (web, API, backend) within the QA strategy, with documented standards.
• Cover trading-specific scenarios: order lifecycle, FIX and venue connectivity, market simulators, and realistic test data and environments.
• Lead non-functional testing: latency, throughput, market-open load peaks, failover and resilience.
• Operate and refine quality gates in CI/CD with DevOps and Application Management, following QA strategy criteria, stopping defective code before production.
• Work with DevOps to automate unit, smoke and E2E testing in pipelines, fine-tune E2E scope, include results in nightly build criteria.
• Own QA input into SCF and HCF releases, including validation, evidence and release sign-off recommendations.
• Run delta testing for critical EBF situations, document residual risk.

Skills

7+ years QA experience

Team leadership

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Jira/Xray/Zephyr

English fluency

Education

BSc in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST-assured

Postman

Jira

Job description

Michael Page International Italia S.r.l. cerca un QA leader in un contesto di system integrator orientato all’innovazione tecnologica nel settore finanziario.

La risorsa collaborerà con lo Head of QA per definire la strategia di test basata sul rischio e gestire priorità, copertura e criteri di rilascio. Si occuperà di evolvere l’automazione framework per web, API e backend, coprendo scenari di trading (order lifecycle, FIX) e test non funzionali (latenza, throughput).