Lead QA Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead QA strategy, planning, execution, and certification for Pillar Options trading-system enhancements and releases.
- Analyze requirements, specifications, technical designs, and code changes to determine test coverage and risks.
- Validate trading workflows involving order entry, matching, auctions, market data, reference data, risk controls, and system recovery.
- Analyze QA and production data, investigate defects, and develop test scenarios and diagnostic tools.
- Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis using logs, protocol messages, market data, system events, and test evidence.
- Support production releases, implementation validation, UAT, operational readiness exercises, audits, and post-release verification.
- Provide technical direction and support the development of other QA engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- 6+ years of software quality assurance experience, including testing low-latency client-server applications.
- Experience testing financial-market, exchange, brokerage, order-management, or electronic-trading applications.
- Knowledge of order types, market structures, price-time priority, auctions, market data, and risk controls.
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux or Unix environments; Red Hat Linux experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of the FIX protocol and experience validating FIX-based order-entry workflows.
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, test design, defect management, risk-based testing, and release certification.
- Demonstrated ability to lead testing activities, provide technical direction, and support other QA engineers.
- Options trading, binary order-entry or market-data protocols, production debugging, UAT, performance, capacity, resiliency, failover, and recovery testing experience are preferred.
- Working knowledge of C++ and the ability to review application code or technical changes for testing impact is preferred.
Benefits
- Regular full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
- The listed New York base salary range is $120,000–$175,000 USD, excluding incentive compensation.
- The role operates in a fast-paced environment and supports production releases, UAT, audits, and operational readiness activities.
About Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange operates global exchanges and clearing houses, offers fixed income and commodities trading platforms, and sells market data, listings, and mortgage technology to financial institutions and lenders. Its revenue comes from transaction and clearing fees, data subscriptions, listings, and software. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, it owns the New York Stock Exchange and ICE Mortgage Technology, and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ICE.