QA Lead for High-Performance Trading Platforms

ICE; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer in New York to drive QA for Pillar Options trading-system enhancements. You will lead planning, automation, and certification across a fast-paced environment, ensuring robust test coverage and rapid, reliable releases.

The role demands 6+ years in QA for low-latency financial applications, strong Linux experience, and solid knowledge of FIX workflows, with a focus on quality and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

QA leadership

Low-latency testing

Test planning

Automation

Problem solving

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

FIX protocol

C++

Linux (Red Hat)

Performance testing

Diagnostics tools

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer in New York to drive QA for Pillar Options trading-system enhancements. You will lead planning, automation, and certification across a fast-paced environment, ensuring robust test coverage and rapid, reliable releases.

The role demands 6+ years in QA for low-latency financial applications, strong Linux experience, and solid knowledge of FIX workflows, with a focus on quality and operational excellence.