Lead QA Engineer - Low-Latency Trading & Automation

ICE Clear Europe Limited; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 120 000 - 175 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in New York seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to drive testing of Pillar Options trading applications across the SDLC, including requirements analysis, test planning, automation, validation, and release certification.

The successful candidate will combine strong options-market knowledge with hands-on QA leadership in a fast-paced environment to ensure high-quality, reliable releases with robust production readiness and issue analysis.

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance, including testing low-latency client-server applications.
• Experience testing financial markets, exchange, brokerage, order-management, or electronic-trading applications.
• Knowledge of order types, market structures, price-time priority, auctions, market data, and risk controls.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux or Unix environments; experience with Red Hat Linux is preferred.
• Knowledge of the FIX protocol and experience validating FIX-based order-entry workflows.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, test design techniques, defect management, risk-based testing, and release certification.
• Ability to work in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead testing activities, provide technical direction, and support the development of other QA engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the QA strategy, planning, execution, and certification activities for Pillar Options trading-system enhancements and releases.
• Analyze business requirements, product specifications, technical designs, and code changes to determine appropriate test coverage and identify potential risks.
• Validate trading workflows across order entry, matching, auctions, market data, reference data, risk controls, and system recovery.
• Analyze data from QA and production environments to identify behavioral differences, investigate defects, and develop additional test scenarios and diagnostic tools.
• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis by reviewing application logs, protocol messages, market data, system events, and test evidence.
• Differentiate critical business-impacting incidents from lower-severity issues and ensure that concerns are resolved or escalated appropriately.
• Support production releases, implementation validations, UAT activities, operational readiness exercises, audits, and post-release verification.

Conhecimentos

QA leadership

Low-latency testing

Financial markets knowledge

Linux/Unix

FIX protocol

Test design techniques

Risk-based testing

Release certification

C++ knowledge

Code review/testing impact

Team collaboration

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in New York seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to drive testing of Pillar Options trading applications across the SDLC, including requirements analysis, test planning, automation, validation, and release certification.

The successful candidate will combine strong options-market knowledge with hands-on QA leadership in a fast-paced environment to ensure high-quality, reliable releases with robust production readiness and issue analysis.