Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Client

Our client is a globally diversified investment organization focused on long‑term, value‑driven investment strategies.

The position is open to full‑time candidates with excellent communication skills to work on‑site in Abu Dhabi (UAE) or remotely within 3h of the Abu Dhabi time zone (within 3h of UTC+4).

Lead, design, and build end‑to‑end quality for Event‑Driven Architecture (EDA), low‑latency platform built on Solace messaging, and Azure (AKS). You will own the test strategy, plan, automation framework, CI/CD pipelines, and compliance testing. The role is hands‑on and leadership‑oriented: you will set standards, coach engineers, and deliver audit‑ready evidence for regulated markets.

• Define a shift‑left test strategy across unit, integration, contract, E2E, performance, security, and resiliency.
• Establish quality gates (defects, coverage, flakiness budgets, performance SLOs) and release criteria.
• Shift left testing: requirements → tests → results → evidence traceability model.

• Architect a test framework packaged for reuse across CEE teams.
• Provide libraries/utilities for API, Solace messaging, database, and contract testing.
• Standardize test data management, deterministic fixtures, and parallel/ephemeral execution patterns.

• Validate producer/consumer contracts, schema evolution, and topic compatibility.
• Assert ordering, idempotency, exactly/at‑least/at‑most‑once semantics, replay, DLQ handling, and deduplicate keys.
• Prove back‑pressure, throttling, and consumer lag behavior under bursty market loads; chaos test broker clusters.
• Enforce schema/contract gates in CI/CD; prevent breaking changes before promote.

• Automate data quality checks for market/reference data, order/trade states, and downstream stores (SQL Server/Azure SQL).
• Implement reconciliation across OMS/EMS, risk, and settlement; verify lineage and PII/PCI masking where relevant.
• Use SQL and profiling to validate accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and SCD/versioned data behaviors.
• Manage golden datasets and synthetic market data at scale for repeatable regression.

• Embed suites in Azure Dev Ops (build → deploy → smoke → regression → perf/security) with mandatory gates (coverage, static analysis, compliance, performance).
• Orchestrate tests on AKS with Docker/Kubernetes, ephemerate environments.
• Validate Open Telemetry to correlate trace IDs across services; validate Application Insights/Dynatrace signals in assertions.

• Baseline latency/throughput; run JMeter/Load Runner for spike/soak/failover; collaborate on capacity tuning.
• Automate OWASP checks (ZAP), enforce SAST/DAST and dependency scanning (Snyk) with remediation gating.

• Lead QA activities in the project, mentor developers on testability and quality by design.
• Contribute to incident response, RCA, production canary/verification suites, and reliability playbooks.

• Languages/Frameworks: C#, Python, xUnit, PyTest, Pact, Docker.
• Testing: xUnit, NUnit, MSTest, , Moq/Auto Fixture, Test Containers‑style patterns.
• APIs/Messaging: REST/Graph
  
  QL/SOAP, Solace (preferred), Rabbit
  
  MQ or Kafka (plus).
• Data: SQL Server, Azure SQL; strong SQL for validation/migrations; data profiling tools.
• Cloud/Infra:
  Azure, AKS, Docker/Kubernetes;
  Terraform/Bicep/ARM.
• CI/CD & Quality:
  Azure Dev Ops, Git/Azure Repos, coverage/linters, policy‑driven gates.
• Perf/Sec/Obs: JMeter/Load Runner, OWASP ZAP, Snyk, Application Insights, Dynatrace, Open Telemetry.
• Secrets:
  Azure Key Vault.
• (Nice) FIX conformance via Quick
  
  FIX/N simulators; schema registry tooling.

• Location:
  
  Abu Dhabi (UAE) or remote within 3h of Abu Dhabi time zone.
• Work model:
  Onsite in Abu Dhabi or remote within 3h of Abu Dhabi time zone.
• Type: 40h/week Contract.
• Duration: 6-12 months initially, with long‑term engagement potential.
• Authorization:
  Applicants must be authorized to work in their country of residence without employer sponsorship.

• 8+ years in QA/engineering with 5+ in financial/trading systems (order lifecycle, market data, risk controls).
• Proven delivery of pipeline‑integrated .NET automation frameworks and regulated‑market audits.
• Deep understanding of EDA QA (contracts, ordering, idempotency, replay, DLQs, back‑pressure) and data‑quality/reconciliation.
• Hands‑on with Azure/AKS, Azure Dev Ops, and performance/security automation at scale.
• Clear communicator; able to lead cross‑functional quality initiatives and coach engineers.
• Strong English proficiency required.

• ISTQB Advanced/CSTE, Azure Fundamentals / Azure Dev Ops Engineer.
• Finance certs (CFA/FRM), Agile/Scrum experience.