Ensuring that resilient test frameworks are defined and produced in order to quality-assure code, ahead of deployment to the production environment
L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate.
Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes.
Mentor junior members of the team.
Ability to work with multiple remote regions.
Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations.
Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines.
Experience / Competences
Essential
Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services. Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage
Proven expertise in server-side Java design and development within banking and trading environments
Messaging QA Experience : Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows - MQ, XML, FIXML. Very detail orientated, understands the impact of getting it wrong
FIX Protocol : Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge) in eg FX/Credit/Commodities Trading environments
Middleware : Working knowledge of Solace messaging middleware
Cloud Platforms : Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS)
CI/CD : Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration
Operating Systems : Strong Linux administration and command-line skills
Database : SQL experience and database management
Testing : JUnit and related unit testing frameworks
Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments.
Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum).
Desired
Deep understanding of FX/Credit/Commodities products and financial instruments.
Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems
Frameworks : Spring Boot and Google Guice dependency injection
Observability : Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and metrics
Testing : Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing
Infrastructure : Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code
Caching : Hazelcast distributed caching solutions
Containerization : Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience
Band & Level - Manager, 6
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Company Statement
Benefits
Vision insuranceRemote work options
Additional Information
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role Overview
Senior QA Engineer responsible for quality assuring and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing. Whilst this role requires the execution of manual test cases, there is a programme of change to drive towards automated testing and therefore any experience in taking a manual test capability and driving to automation is advantageous