Senior Staff Engineer
StoneX Group Inc.2 years ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and establish comprehensive test coverage.
- Own test strategy, estimation, planning, execution, exit criteria, release-risk assessment, and QA recommendations.
- Design and automate backend test coverage using the existing SpecFlow/ReqNRoll frameworks and C# or a comparable language.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, API, service, database, and message-level testing across trading workflows.
- Test execution services, FIX gateways, exchange and broker connectivity, order lifecycles, and downstream post-trade processing.
- Analyze application logs, databases, service behavior, and message flows to isolate defects and support root-cause analysis.
- Manage release deployments across environments with partner teams and support UAT, production readiness, and operational releases.
- Participate in requirements refinement, Three Amigos discussions, sprint planning, defect triage, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Document test plans, cases, results, and evidence, and improve QA practices through peer review, reusable assets, and automation.
- Evaluate AI-assisted test generation, intelligent test selection, automated defect analysis, synthetic test data generation, and quality analytics.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience testing complex trading, financial, transactional, or other high-integrity backend systems.
- Hands-on experience with manual functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing in an Agile delivery environment.
- Confident API and backend-service testing, including validation of requests, responses, events, and persisted data.
- Basic SQL skills for data interrogation, reconciliation, and test-evidence preparation.
- Experience diagnosing issues through application logs, service behavior, databases, and message flows.
- Practical automation experience using C# or a comparable language to extend an existing test framework.
- Experience with Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, and test execution within build and deployment tooling.
- Ability to translate requirements and business workflows into risk-based test coverage and traceable evidence.
- Experience taking testing from requirements analysis through QA sign-off, UAT support, and production release.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- ISTQB or another relevant testing certification is advantageous but not essential.
- Preferred experience includes exchange-traded derivatives, US futures, electronic order or execution management systems, FIX protocol, distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and controlled production releases.
- Preferred experience includes Postman, Swagger, SQL Server, Kafka, Kubernetes, Rancher, TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus, Jira, and Confluence.
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, communication, collaboration, ownership, and knowledge-sharing skills.
Benefits
- Working environment requires four days in the office per week.
- The role offers opportunities to use AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to improve testing and delivery efficiency, subject to governance and quality controls.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaC#CucumberDatabricksDatadogDockerGitInfluxDBJenkinsKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerOctopus DeployPostmanRancherRedisTeamCity
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About StoneX Group Inc.
StoneX Group Inc. is a public financial services firm that connects institutional, commercial, and retail clients to global markets through brokerage, execution, clearing, risk management, and cross-border payments. It offers trading and hedging across commodities, equities, fixed income, futures/options, and FX, and operates retail platforms via GAIN Capital’s FOREX.com and City Index (acquired 2020). Founded in 1924 and headquartered in New York, it lists on Nasdaq under SNEX.