Overview
We are seeking an experienced HFT FX QA Engineer / Test Lead to join our team as a contractor. The role involves defining and executing the QA processes for the MVP trading platform, ensuring the system is reliable and safe for releases. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and stakeholders to validate complex financial systems and maintain operational readiness, focusing on both front-end and back-end testing.
Responsibilities
- Own the QA process for MVP releases.
- Define test plans for each release, feature, and environment.
- Build and maintain regression coverage across the UI, APIs, backend services, and key trading workflows.
- Validate end-to-end flows from market data through order creation, execution, risk state, and dashboard visibility.
- Verify API behaviour, data contracts, error handling, and edge cases.
- Support UAT with clear test scripts, evidence, and issue tracking.
- Create automated tests where appropriate — API, regression, smoke, and deployment verification.
- Track defects clearly, providing reproduction steps, expected and actual behaviour, evidence, and severity.
Requirements
- Strong QA experience on complex backend or trading-platform systems.
- Experience writing practical test plans and regression packs.
- Proficient in testing APIs, asynchronous systems, and real-time data flows.
- Familiarity with working in production-like UAT environments.
- Ability to read logs to isolate issues across front end, backend, and deployment.
- Good understanding of defect severity and release risk.
- Experience working collaboratively with developers in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to create clear test evidence for stakeholders.