TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

Staffing Solutions USA, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffing Solutions USA, a trusted provider of technology staffing, seeks a Trading Systems QA Engineer Consultant for a financial services client in NYC. You will design and execute tests across order routing, P&L calculations, and trade lifecycle events, collaborating with trading desks, operations, and development teams.

You will apply risk-based testing, develop test plans in Jira, write reusable SQL queries, and contribute to Playwright-based automation while supporting after-hours

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in institutional capital markets.
• Ability to describe the trade life cycle and differentiate order routing/execution types (high touch, electronic, algorithmic).
• Hands-on experience validating P&L across equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
• Strong analytical skills and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Test strategy and design.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into detailed, repeatable test cases with preconditions and acceptance criteria in Jira.
• Author and maintain test plans, documentation, and checklists in Confluence and GitHub.
• Apply risk-based testing to prioritize high-impact scenarios.
• Test API interactions (REST, gRPC) and data flows end-to-end.
• Write reusable SQL queries to validate data across stores.
• Automation and execution with Playwright-based tests.
• Represent QA in stand-ups and project meetings.

Skills

QA testing

Analytical thinking

Communication

Test design

Risk-based testing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Playwright

SQL

REST

gRPC

Job description

SSUSA Job #1133: TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

Job Description

TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

One of our financial services clients is seeking a consultant to work with their QA group across their institutional trading platforms. You will be required to work 5 day work week with 3 days per week in the office in NYC.You will design and execute tests that validate complex financial workflows, from order routing through P&L calculations, working closely with trading desks, operations groups, business groups, and a core development team. This is an individual contributor role focused on uncovering defects early in the SDLC and improving product quality for our professionals and our institutional clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Test strategy and design
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into detailed, repeatable test cases, with preconditions and acceptance criteria in Jira
• Author and maintain test plans, documentation, and checklists in Confluence and GitHub
• Apply risk-based testing to prioritize high-impact scenarios
• Functional and domain testing
• Build and maintain tests validating trade life cycle events across equities and derivative products
• Verify complex financial calculations (P&L, fees/commissions, etc.) with in-house tools and golden data sets
• Integration and data integrity
• Execute integration tests spanning internal systems and vendor platforms; validate FIX sessions and drop copies
• Test API interactions (REST, gRPC) and data flows end-to-end
• Write reusable SQL queries and scripts to validate data correctness across relational and NoSQL stores
• Automation and execution
• Trigger and suggest extensions of Playwright-based automation test suites
• Design manual exploratory tests that identify realistic edge cases and usability issues
• Analyze test results, isolate defects, and partner with the dev team for root cause analysis
• Flexibility and Communication
• Track defects in Jira, providing clear status and coverage metrics to the QA Lead
• Represent QA in daily stand-ups and ad hoc project meetings
• Support product deployments after-hours and on weekends

QUALIFICATIONS

• Availability during EST and overlapping NYSE hours; willingness to support after-hours/weekend release validation
• 2+ years of professional experience in institutional capital markets
• Ability to describe the trade life cycle and differentiate order routing/execution types (high touch, electronic, algorithmic, upstairs)
• Hands-on experience validating P&L across equities, fixed income, and derivatives
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication skills (comfortable asking questions and challenging assumptions)
• Big-picture, risk-based testing mindset to prioritize high-impact scenarios

Staffing Solutions USA P.O. Box 113344, Stamford, CT 06911 p: 212.972.5100 [e-mail]

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