Senior Test Engineer
ASX Limited16 hours 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, multi-protocol integrations, real-time transaction processing, and automated trading interfaces.
- Prepare test data and environment dependencies, manage execution readiness, investigate and track defects through resolution, and report 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 internal and external tools.
- Use approved AI tools and contribute to continuous improvement within the QE&T Community of Practice.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software testing experience in complex, mission-critical, high-availability systems.
- Experience testing distributed, event-driven, or real-time transaction processing systems and integrations using FIX, APIs, messaging, file-based interfaces, or equivalent protocols.
- Experience analysing message flows, system interactions, data transformations, and complex integrated platforms.
- Strong system, integration, end-to-end, regression, and release testing experience.
- 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.
- Experience with SQL, reconciliation of large datasets, CI/CD delivery environments, test automation frameworks, Linux/Unix, command-line tools, Jira, and Confluence.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Preferred: experience with exchange, clearing, settlement, derivatives, equities, fixed income, OTC trading, market data, electronic or algorithmic trading, or market surveillance platforms.
- Preferred: knowledge of FIX, ITCH, OUCH, GLIMPSE, or FAST; Kafka, Avro, event streaming, and real-time data distribution architectures; cloud-native architectures, containerisation, and DevOps practices.
- Preferred: Java or Python development experience and ISTQB Advanced certification or equivalent.
Benefits
- Flexible working and hybrid working options are supported.
- Part-time and other flexible working arrangements may be considered even where roles are advertised as full-time.
- Background checks, including reference and police checks, are required during onboarding.
- Applicants must be legally authorised to work permanently in Australia without restrictions.
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.