QA Engineer / SDET - Front Office, Equities, Automation - NYC
Cadogan Solutions
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Job summary
Cadogan Solutions is expanding its QA Automation team in New York, hiring experienced QA Automation Engineers. This is an exciting chance to work in a front-office trading technology environment, enhancing and scaling an internal Java-based automation framework.
Successful candidates will focus on automation delivery in high-performance trading systems, with responsibilities including developing automation strategies and collaborating closely with teams across the organization. Financial services experience is strongly preferred.
Qualifications
- Strong experience testing trading platforms or low-latency systems.
- Experience with high-performance distributed environments.
- Background in financial services preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own automation strategy and enhance the framework.
- Focus on scalable automation architecture and tooling improvements.
- Deliver automation testing across complex distributed systems.
Skills
Tools
Job description
A leading front-office trading technology team is expanding its QA Automation function and hiring two experienced QA Automation Engineers to support a major strategic transformation across algorithmic equities trading platforms.
This is a high-impact opportunity to join a technically strong engineering environment focused on modernising a complex trading stack, migrating away from legacy architecture into a more scalable and strategic platform framework.
The team is looking for engineers who are genuinely automation-first, with strong Java engineering capability and experience operating within high-performance, business-critical systems.
- Front-office trading technology environment
- Strong focus on QA automation engineering rather than manual testing
- Opportunity to enhance and scale an internal Java-based automation framework
- Close collaboration with developers, product teams, and trading technology stakeholders
- Early-stage team growth with significant influence on tooling and testing strategy
- Ownership of automation strategy and framework enhancement
- Strong SDET-style engineering capability expected
- Focus on CI/CD integration, tooling improvements, and scalable automation architectureHands-on leadership role within QA engineering
- Highly hands-on automation and testing role
- Focus on automation delivery across complex distributed systems
- Ideal for candidates with strong experience testing trading platforms or other low-latency systems
- Experience with Linux and GitHub
- Background working within trading systems, electronic trading, or other high-performance distributed environments
- Experience with Trading Platforms and FIX protocol highly preferred
- Financial services experience strongly preferred
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