Senior Lead QA Engineer
London Stock Exchange Groupover 1 year ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape the performance testing strategy for robust and scalable backend systems supporting a multi-dealer FX platform.
- Lead and remain hands-on with a team of QA engineers focused on performance testing.
- Design and execute soak, load, stress, throughput, functional, and non-functional testing suites.
- Develop and maintain non-functional requirement calculations and performance benchmarks for trading systems.
- Build Java-based test engineering tooling, test doubles, simulators, and test reporting services.
- Use Gatling and JMeter to implement performance testing strategies and analyze results for bottlenecks.
- Establish automated performance testing within CI/CD pipelines and improve testing methodologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate performance strategies, issues, and results to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Monitor and interpret performance metrics using Kafka, Redis, ELK, and Datadog.
- Lead team-related processes and metrics while balancing iterative development with requirements elaboration.
Requirements
- At least 8–10 years of experience in a senior testing role, preferably with an exchange, multi-dealer FX platform, or top-tier bank.
- Strong understanding of trading system architecture and performance and scalability testing.
- Excellent knowledge of functional and non-functional QA principles.
- Expert proficiency with Gatling and JMeter.
- Strong Java development skills for test tooling, simulators, and reporting services.
- At least 3 years of experience using Cucumber-Java for BDD automated test cases and cucumber glue code.
- Experience with Spring for test reporting services and other test tooling.
- Understanding of Kafka, Redis, ELK, and Datadog for monitoring and performance analysis.
- Experience with database performance testing and optimization across SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, and shell scripting.
- Understanding of RTO/RPO testing is considered a strong advantage.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate testing strategies, issues, and results.
- Experience establishing performance testing as part of CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits
- Collaboration with a global and diverse engineering team located across Singapore, Bangkok, London, New York, and Bucharest.
- Healthcare benefits, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Diverse, inclusive, collaborative, and creative organizational culture.
- Equal-opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
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About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.