Senior QA Lead - Low-Latency Trading Systems

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; New York (NY); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 175.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to drive testing for Pillar Options trading systems in a fast-paced financial tech environment.

The role covers requirements analysis, test planning and automation, functional and technical validation, release certification, and post‑production issue analysis. Strong experience in low-latency trading and FIX workflows is essential.

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

QA leadership

Test planning

Automation

Linux/Unix

FIX protocol

Low-latency testing

Performance testing

Team leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Red Hat Linux

C++ (review code)

Jobbeschreibung

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to drive testing for Pillar Options trading systems in a fast-paced financial tech environment.

The role covers requirements analysis, test planning and automation, functional and technical validation, release certification, and post‑production issue analysis. Strong experience in low-latency trading and FIX workflows is essential.