QA Engineer – Trading

Description of the offer

Join Zeal Group, the award-winning FinTech Trading Platform and Trading Service provider. Our portfolio of regulated financial institutions and fintech companies is backed by a global team of 700+ professionals with headquarters in the UK and 22 offices worldwide. As a leading online trading provider for FX, commodities, precious metals, and CFD, we facilitate an estimated monthly trading volume of USD 100B by retail investors, traders, and institutions. With our Technology Hub in Cyprus, we offer a dynamic environment for creative minds.

About the Trading Team

To enable our clients to have their trades priced and executed quickly and reliably and conduct effective Trading/Risk Management by the company, we develop a set of functional technical solutions and components that support (not limited): connectivity to Liquidity Providers for Pricing and Execution, ECN functionality, liquidity management configuration and Internal Risk management and Anti-Fraud Tooling.

Responsibilities

• Conduct functional testing of the components and end-to-end
• Building and maintaining distributed test environments
• Keeps test documentation(in Gherkin) up to date and well formed (test cases, test suites, test plans)
• Responsible for the quality of the deliverables
• Participate in sprint planning to ensure quality of requirements and may extend requirements for testability purpose
• Communication with the team (developers, devOps, QA Automation Engineers)
• Performs any activity required to guaranty the quality

Requirements

• Experience (1.5-2+ years) in testing Application Servers, Telco and/or Trading Applications
• Interested in “gray box testing”, exploratory testing, static testing
• Excellent analytical skills to identify areas to improve
• Experience in Agile methodologies and working across multiple squads/teams
• Experience with requirements analysis (story creation and Definition of Ready), defect tracking, coordinating with team members in different locations, and test reporting and signoff (Definition of Done).

Skills

• The life cycle of software development and the main types of testing at each stage
• Main software testing methodologies
• Approaches to the analysis of business requirements
• SQL
• English language (at least – at the level of reading technical documentation)

Additional Skills

• Understanding working principal of client-server communication (Http)
• Experience in testing backend (API/ Message brokers)
• Experience with different sniffers (Charles, Fiddler)
• Experience with prepare/configuration/deploy test environments

Package

• Paid 21 days of holidays per year and 10 additional days for national holiday
• Training opportunities for growth and expansion of knowledge
• Ability to work remotely
• Flexible and hybrid schedule – we value work-life balance
• Referral Bonus Program

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