QA & BA

What we are looking for:

• Highly skilled and results-driven Fixed Income Electronic Trading QA/BA with over 7 years of experience in quality assurance, business analysis, and testing for electronic trading platforms in the fixed income market.
• Proven expertise in functional and performance testing, process analysis, requirements gathering, and driving efficiency in software development life cycles.
• Adept at identifying issues, analyzing business requirements, and working collaboratively with development, trading, and operations teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Functional Competencies
• Fixed Income Trading (Credit or Rates or ETFs or Muni Products)
• Electronic Trading Platforms (MarketAxess, Tradeweb, Bloomberg, Brokertec etc)
• QA/Testing Methodologies (Manual Testing, Regression, UAT, Functional)
• Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering
• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• SQL & Data Analysis
• JIRA & Confluence
• End-to-End Testing

Technical Skills

• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• OS: Windows * Linux
• Programming Languages: Python
• Version Control: Git, Bitbucket
• Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, TestRail
• Other: ION Trading (desirable), Bloomberg Terminal, Tradeweb

Responsibilities
• Lead quality assurance efforts for the Fixed Income Electronic Trading platform, focusing on bonds, derivatives, and other fixed income instruments.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to gather, document, and translate requirements into functional specifications and test cases.
• Conducted extensive manual testing of trading workflows, including order execution, pricing, and risk management functionalities.
• Perform end-to-end testing for integration with external liquidity providers, trading venues, and market data feeds.
• Validated real-time trading, trade life-cycle, trade execution, and settlement processes within the platform.
• Conduct manual testing of Fixed Income applications, focusing on trading platforms for Credit, Rates, ETFs, or Muni Products)
• Work alongside business analysts and product owners to define test cases based on business usage and needs
• Execute functional, regression, and user acceptance tests to ensure the delivery of defect-free software.
• Generate detailed defect reports, tracked issues through JIRA, and communicated findings to the development team for resolution.