Senior QA Engineer

Pico (www.pico.net) fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the centre of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, Dublin, London, Madrid, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Senior QA Engineer 

Role Description

PICO (formerly Redline Ltd) is expanding its test engineering team which is responsible for ensuring the quality of its high performance, real-time market data, order entry, and trading application products. This team delivers innovative, automated testing solutions to verify the accuracy, performance, functionality, stress, resilience and use case validation of the company’s products.

Working from our Krakow office, you will be working in a team that are passionate about quality. As a part of our agile teams, you will be responsible for designing comprehensive functional testing and system testing strategies along with playing a key role in automating developed tests, using in-house automation test framework, to ensure our industry leading product is high quality.

The successful applicant will have 5 years of test engineering experience, preferably dealing with enterprise products based on Linux, and have a good working knowledge of trading applications/products and scripting languages. Experience with Python programming and shell scripting is required. Functional understanding of Cloud environment is desirable but not required

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the quality of industry leading financial and enterprise core product features
• Working within an agile software development lifecycle to test new product features and leading the scrum
• Designing functional and system test strategies using QA best practice
• Using scripting and programming skills to automate tests using python, shell scripting etc.

Required Skills

• Working knowledge of trading application/products
• Strong Python or similar scripting skills
• A working knowledge of Linux OS & experience in shell scripting
• Detailed understanding of testing methodologies, with experience of system & regression testing
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Excellent verbal and written English-language communication skills
• Ability to take ownership of features and deliver them with high quality

 Desirable Skills

• Functional understanding of Cloud environments
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Working knowledge of IP networking protocols and systems
• Experience with C/C and Java

Qualifications

• Third Level Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or similar.

Working Arrangements

This is a hybrid-based position with weekly time in the office with the flexibility of working from home. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. The role holder will be expected to work whatever hours are necessary for the performance of this role (recognizing that it involves multiple jurisdictions / geographies including but not limited to EMEA, USA and APAC).

Be a part of Pico Family

Pico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at Pico are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.