Ssusa Trading Systems Qa Engineer Consultant

SSUSA Job #1133: TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

Job Description

One of our financial services clients is seeking a consultant to work with their QA group across their institutional trading platforms. You will be required to work 5‑day work week with 3 days per week in the office in NYC. You will design and execute tests that validate complex financial workflows, from order routing through P&L calculations, working closely with trading desks, operations groups, business groups, and a core development team.

This is an individual‑contributor role focused on uncovering defects early in the SDLC and improving product quality for our professionals and our institutional clients.

• Test strategy and design
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into detailed, repeatable test cases, with preconditions and acceptance criteria in Jira
• Author and maintain test plans, documentation, and checklists in Confluence and Git Hub
• Apply risk‑based testing to prioritize high‑impact scenarios
• Functional and domain testing
• Build and maintain tests validating trade life cycle events across equities and derivative products
• Verify complex financial calculations (P&L, fees/commissions, etc.) with in‑house tools and golden data sets
• Integration and data integrity
• Execute integration tests spanning internal systems and vendor platforms; validate FIX sessions and drop copies
• Test API interactions (REST, gRPC) and data flows end‑to‑end
• Write reusable SQL queries and scripts to validate data correctness across relational and No
  
  SQL stores
• Automation and execution
• Trigger and suggest extensions of Playwright‑based automation test suites
• Design manual exploratory tests that identify realistic edge cases and usability issues
• Analyze test results, isolate defects, and partner with the dev team for root cause analysis
• Flexibility and Communication
• Track defects in Jira, providing clear status and coverage metrics to the QA Lead
• Represent QA in daily stand‑ups and ad hoc project meetings
• Support product deployments after‑hours and on weekends

• Availability during EST and overlapping NYSE hours; willingness to support after‑hours/weekend release validation
• 2+ years of professional experience in institutional capital markets
• Ability to describe the trade life cycle and differentiate order routing/execution types (high touch, electronic, algorithmic, upstairs)
• Hands‑on experience validating P&L across equities, fixed income, and derivatives
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication skills (comfortable asking questions and challenging assumptions)
• Big‑picture, risk‑based testing mindset to prioritize high‑impact scenarios

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