Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Responsibilities

• Lead testing activities across backend services, APIs, and UI applications (primary focus on backend/API testing)
• Validate end-to-end trade lifecycle workflows, including integrations across multiple systems and services
• Perform a mix of:
• Manual exploratory testing for complex scenarios
• Functional, regression, and integration testing
• Automated test execution and validation
• Collaborate closely with global Business Analyst, Development and QA teams for efficient test planning, test design and co-ordinate testing efforts between global teams.
• Promote delivery of quality software - unit tests, code reviews etc.
• Demonstrate a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership and prioritization of tasks.
• Experiment with multiple technologies and methodologies as part of delivery, to help guarantee the best solution and approach.
• Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.
• Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.
• Mentoring and coaching the team members to stretch quality achievements
• Experience / Competences
• Essential
• Proven experience as a Senior QA Engineer in backend/service-oriented systems
• Proficient in one OO programming (C# preferred) and one scripting (javascript, typescript etc.) language
• Demonstrable experience using JIRA, Zephyr, and UI Automation tooling (e.g. Test Complete, FlaUI, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright etc.)
• Adept at analysing and identifying key areas for automation using development, data manipulation and scripting skills
• Experience and developing end to end functional automated tests
• Experience of designing Acceptance Test Criteria for functional requirements, writing and maintaining end to end tests with an Automated Framework.
• Skilled in using CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Team City, Jenkins.
• Experience of using BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber and performance/ NFR testing tool J-Meter or similar.
• Non-Functional testing including, Performance, Load, Stress and Security testing
• Knowledge of FIX Client / FIX API automation.
• Understanding of trade life cycle and knowledge of broker/ trader platforms
• Identify and raise risks to the project and product to key stakeholders. Work with Product Owners and BAs to prioritise/ mitigate risk
• Participate in agreeing the Definition of Done to ensure Quality is central and achievement can be measured
• Knowledgeable in Jira or similar issue management system.
• Adept at working in Agile/ Agile SAFe engineering environments, exhibiting strong communication skills including collaboration with local and remote team members.
• Appreciation of the full SDLC and driving the importance of quality throughout this process.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive and independent approach to problem solving and innovative solutions.
• Pro-actively take initiative to collaborate and improve the teams quality and performance.
• Delivery-focused and pragmatic, capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously and managing deadlines.
• Critically evaluate and offer challenge to design, approach or tooling to achieve the best outcome for the project.
• Experience of reporting on testing progress and strategy, providing inte

Benefits

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 We are seeking a hands-on Senior QA Engineer to join our Credit Technology team. This role is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of backend trading systems, APIs, and UI applications through a combination of manual and automated testing. You will play a key role in validating complex end-to-end trading workflows, including distributed services, event-driven systems, and user interfaces (desktop and web). While contributing to automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, you are expected to remain deeply involved in hands-on testing, debugging, and defect analysis. This role requires a pragmatic approach to quality engineering - balancing automation, exploratory testing, and real-world system validation to ensure robust delivery in a fast-paced, Agile environment. Working on an EMEA shift.

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