Senior QA Automation for Backend Trading Platform

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft seeks an experienced QA professional to join a trading platform project for a top-tier hedge fund. You will perform manual testing, analyze logs, and contribute to backend automation, ensuring quality across front-office and trading system components.

The role requires deep testing expertise, strong Java/Cucumber skills, and proficiency with SQL, REST/SOAP APIs, and UNIX CLI. You will collaborate with stakeholders and developers to improve QA processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of testing experience.
• Willingness to perform manual testing.
• Willingness to maintain and run automation suites in rotation.
• Experience in backend manual testing.
• Strong knowledge of test design.
• Business domain experience in stock exchange trading.
• Strong knowledge of client-server software architecture.
• Good backend and test data management understanding.
• Good working knowledge of Java and Cucumber.
• Good working knowledge of JavaScript.
• Advanced UNIX CLI experience.
• Good debugging/troubleshooting for test failures.
• Good knowledge of REST and SOAP APIs.
• Good knowledge of SQL.

Responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders, end-users, developers and QA.
• Manual API testing.
• Analyze logs and test results.
• Work on backend automation.
• Create test cases in TestRail.
• Be proactive in process improvement.
• Manual testing of desktop trading platform.

Skills

Manual testing

Test design

Backend testing

Debugging

UNIX CLI

Communication

Tools

Java

Cucumber

JavaScript

REST API

SOAP API

SQL

Kafka

AWS tools

Docker

CI/CD in QA context

Job description

Luxoft seeks an experienced QA professional to join a trading platform project for a top-tier hedge fund. You will perform manual testing, analyze logs, and contribute to backend automation, ensuring quality across front-office and trading system components.

The role requires deep testing expertise, strong Java/Cucumber skills, and proficiency with SQL, REST/SOAP APIs, and UNIX CLI. You will collaborate with stakeholders and developers to improve QA processes.