Senior QA Engineer — Electronic Trading (Hybrid, Porto)

Hexa Group; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance from day one

Psychological support through mental健康

Continuous learning, training and cert

Upskilling in software quality管理

Hybrid working model in Porto

Childcare vouchers and family support

Team activities and leadership

Job summary

Hexa Group in Porto is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of electronic trading solutions in the banking sector. Based in Porto with a hybrid working model, you will focus on manual testing while contributing to test automation and continuous quality improvement.

You will design and execute functional, integration and performance tests, validate pricing and order workflows, develop test plans, and collaborate with developers and product teams to improve test

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Software QA, preferably banking/fintech/trading.
• Degree in CS/Engineering/Finance or related field.
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income or Derivatives and trading processes.
• Proven manual testing experience on complex, business-critical apps.
• Excellent English, analytical, autonomous and collaborative.

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, collaborating with developers to support resolution.
• 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 the evaluation and implementation of automated testing for APIs, user interfaces and backend services.

Skills

QA experience

Manual testing

Analytical skills

Autonomy

English proficiency

Problem-solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Finance

Tools

Test planning

Performance testing

API testing

Linux basics

XML data validation

Shell scripting

Scrum

Job description

Hexa Group in Porto is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of electronic trading solutions in the banking sector. Based in Porto with a hybrid working model, you will focus on manual testing while contributing to test automation and continuous quality improvement.

You will design and execute functional, integration and performance tests, validate pricing and order workflows, develop test plans, and collaborate with developers and product teams to improve test