Senior Functional Tester - Banking/Trading (Hybrid, Porto)

Hexa Consulting; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance from day one

Mental health support program

Continuous learning and training

Job summary

Hexa Consulting in Porto seeks a Senior Functional Tester to ensure quality of electronic trading solutions in banking. The role is hybrid in Porto, focusing on manual testing while contributing to automation and continuous quality improvement.

You will design and execute tests across functional, integration and performance areas, validate trading workflows and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance test coverage and tooling.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, preferably banking/fintech.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or related field.
• Solid understanding of financial markets, especially Fixed Income or Derivatives.
• Proven experience in manual testing of complex, business-critical applications.
• Strong analytical, detail-oriented and structured problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage priorities and collaborate with teams.
• English proficiency, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, integration, regression and performance tests for electronic trading applications.
• Validate pricing, order processing, execution and market connectivity workflows.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases and execution evidence.
• Verify API interactions, trading messages and data exchanges.
• Identify, document and reproduce defects; collaborate with developers to resolve them.
• Perform latency, load and stress testing to assess system performance.
• Analyze application logs and investigate issues to support root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts and product owners to improve test coverage.
• Contribute to automated testing evaluation for APIs, UIs and backend services.

Skills

Manual testing

Functional testing

Integration testing

Regression testing

Performance testing

API testing

XML data validation

Linux environments

Shell scripting

Agile methodologies

Test planning

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or related field

Tools

Python

C#

FIX Protocol

Automation frameworks

XML data validation

Linux scripting

Testing tools suites

Job description

Hexa Consulting in Porto seeks a Senior Functional Tester to ensure quality of electronic trading solutions in banking. The role is hybrid in Porto, focusing on manual testing while contributing to automation and continuous quality improvement.

You will design and execute tests across functional, integration and performance areas, validate trading workflows and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance test coverage and tooling.