Senior Test Engineer (12 Month Max Term Contract)
ASX Limited1 day ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Analyse business, functional, and technical requirements for completeness, quality, and testability.
- Design, review, and execute test cases, scenarios, and suites across functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression, and operational readiness testing.
- Validate trading workflows, order management, market data processing, real-time transaction processing, and multi-protocol integrations.
- Prepare test data and environment dependencies and support execution readiness.
- Identify, investigate, document, and track defects through resolution.
- Provide test execution reporting, quality metrics, and release evidence.
- Participate in risk assessments, test planning, estimation, and release readiness reviews.
- Design, build, maintain, and improve test automation suites using vendor and internal tools.
- Contribute to continuous improvement within the QE&T Community of Practice and use employer-approved AI tools in test engineering.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software testing experience in complex, mission-critical, high-availability systems.
- Experience testing distributed, event-driven, or real-time transaction processing systems.
- Experience testing systems using FIX, APIs, messaging platforms, file-based integrations, or equivalent protocols and interfaces.
- Experience with system, system integration, end-to-end, regression, and release testing.
- Experience in highly regulated or operationally critical industries such as financial markets, banking, or payments.
- Experience troubleshooting production-like issues using logs, message tracing, databases, and monitoring tools.
- Strong SQL experience and ability to reconcile large, complex datasets.
- Experience in CI/CD delivery environments and with test automation frameworks, strategy, and execution.
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments, command-line tools, Jira, and Confluence.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes exchange, clearing, settlement, derivatives, market data, electronic or algorithmic trading, low-latency or high-throughput systems, Kafka, Avro, event streaming, Java, Python, cloud-native architectures, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of FIX, ITCH, OUCH, GLIMPSE, or FAST market protocols and understanding of order lifecycle management and market data dissemination are advantageous.
- ISTQB Advanced certification or equivalent is advantageous.
- Candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia permanently without restrictions.
Benefits
- 12-month maximum-term contract.
- Flexible working and hybrid working options are available, with consideration for part-time or other flexible arrangements.
- Background checks, including reference and police checks, are completed during onboarding.
- Workplace inclusion, employee-led networks, wellbeing support, and volunteering initiatives are offered.
About ASX Limited
ASX Limited operates Australia’s primary securities exchange, providing listing, trading, clearing, settlement, market data, and connectivity across equities, derivatives, ETFs, and fixed income. It earns fees from listings, transactions, post‑trade services, and data/technology services for brokers, issuers, and investors. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Sydney, ASX runs central counterparty clearing and depository infrastructure and is widely ranked among the world’s larger exchanges by market capitalization.