Electronic FX QA Engineer

Nomura; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura’s E-Trading Strategy FX team in Singapore is seeking a QA specialist to ensure the quality and reliability of our FX trading platforms. You will collaborate with the wider development teams in Singapore and London to test market making models, low-latency routes, and UI components.

The role emphasizes automation, performance testing, and CI/CD integration, with a focus on accuracy, speed, and robustness across 24/5 FX operations.

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, API testing, performance testing for low-latency systems, and UI automation for React/Vue.js applications.
• Preferred FX domain knowledge including FIX protocol testing, regulatory reporting validation, and real-time trading system testing.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java-based test automation

API testing

Performance testing

UI automation

CI/CD integration

Analytical/problem-solving

Communication skills

AI coding assistants familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

TestNG

JUnit

Cucumber

Selenium

Playwright

Jenkins

GitLab

Gradle

Job description

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