Electronic FX QA Engineer

Nomura Holdings, Inc.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura is hiring for a QA role focused on E-Trading Strategy FX, coordinating with Singapore and London teams to ensure high-quality, low-latency FX systems. You will validate market making, algorithmic trading, and system reliability while integrating CI/CD pipelines and tooling across the stack.

The role requires strong Java test automation skills, API and UI testing, and experience with FX trade workflows. A CS degree and global collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in financial services QA with minimum 3+ years specifically in FX/trading systems.
• Strong technical expertise in Java-based test automation (TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber), API testing, and UI automation (Selenium, Playwright).
• Preferred FX domain knowledge including FIX protocol testing, regulatory reporting validation, and real-time trading system testing.
• Experience of CI / CD pipeline integration (Jenkins, GitLab) with large Gradle build systems would be beneficial.
• Exceptional attention to detail with analytical and problem-solving skills, strong communication across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Qualitative Assurance of all aspects of FX market making and FX algorithmic trading
• Manage and work on projects related to FX products

Skills

QA in financial services

Java test automation

API testing

UI automation

CI/CD

Low-latency testing

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

TestNG

JUnit

Cucumber

Selenium

Playwright

Jenkins

GitLab

Gradle

Job description

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Department overview:

E-Trading Strategy FX sits within Nomura's Global Markets division. FX is a strategic franchise for Nomura whose direction is driven from Singapore with the team focusing on all quant and tech elements of the Electronic FX flows within Nomura. This ranges from market making (the models, the curve and subsequent price distribution), our aggregator and the algos within it and other such projects such as our web-enabled Single Dealer Platform. In short – if it's electronically handled within Nomura it flows through one of the systems the team owns.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing team who are focused on building out the Nomura FX franchise. You will be working with the wider development team in Singapore and London to ensure that the products delivered are up to the highest standards to support our 24 hours a day, 5 and half days a week FX business. Your focus will be not only in the quality assurance of the system but also within the reliability. We are committed to engineering systems that are designed to deliver across our franchise with thought in their application.

• Qualitative Assurance of all aspects of FX market making and FX algorithmic trading
• Manage and work on projects related to FX products

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• 5-7 years in financial services QA with minimum 3+ years specifically in FX/trading systems
• Strong technical expertise in Java-based test automation (TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber), API testing, performance testing for low-latency systems, and UI automation (Selenium, Playwright) for React/Vue.js applications
• Preferred FX domain knowledge including FIX protocol testing, regulatory reporting validation, and real-time trading system testing
• Experience of CI / CD pipeline integration (Jenkins, GitLab) with large Gradle build systems would be beneficial
• Exceptional attention to detail with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong communication abilities across technical and business teams, and innovative approach to automation and process improvement
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants and ability to effectively leverage them while maintaining code quality standards
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from an accredited education institution
• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion : Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER: This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.