Senior Lead QA Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group1 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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