Senior / Lead QA Automation/Manual with Trade Lifecycle

Building a trading platform for an innovative international top‑tier hedge fund from the ground up, comprising the front‑office system for traders, pre‑trade checks and analysis, intra‑day position management, order management and routing, risk and limits management, reports of trading activities, FIX connectivity, and market data connectivity (e.g., Bloomberg B‑pipe).

QA will work across multiple teams including developers, devOps, and other QA.

Responsibilities

• Interaction with business stakeholders, end‑users, developers, and other QA.
• Lead the team.
• Manual API testing.
• Analyze logs and test results.
• Work on backend automation.
• Creation of test cases in TestRail.
• Be proactive in terms of process building.
• Manual testing of desktop application (trading platform).

Qualifications

Testing Expertise

• Strong experience in manual and automation testing of both UI and backend (APIs, Java microservices).
• Proficiency in functional, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end (E2E) testing.

UI Testing (Manual & Automation)

• Hands‑on experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress for UI test automation.
• Experience testing UI built with React or similar.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman or RestAssured.
• Basic experience in database validation (SQL & NoSQL) for backend data consistency.

Microservices & Messaging Systems

• Understanding of microservices architecture and service‑to‑service communication.
• Experience with Kafka‑based event‑driven systems (testing producers/consumers, validating messages).

Automation & Programming

• Experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks.
• Ability to build and maintain test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing.
• Strong experience working with Unix/Linux environments for log analysis, process monitoring, and debugging.
• Ability to write shell scripts for automation tasks.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams.
• Experience in writing detailed test cases, test plans, and defect reports.

Leadership & Team Management Skills

• Experience leading QA teams, mentoring testers, and driving best practices.
• Ability to define testing strategies, prioritize test efforts, and improve overall QA processes.
• Experience in collaborating with developers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure high‑quality releases.
• Strong decision‑making skills and ability to coordinate testing efforts in an Agile environment.
• Experience in hiring, training, and performance reviews for QA team members.
• Ability to drive automation initiatives and ensure alignment with business goals.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in UI and backend testing (manual & automation).
• 2+ years of experience in leading QA teams or mentoring junior testers.
• Experience testing microservices, APIs, event‑driven systems, and web applications.

Nice to Have

• Business domain experience (Trading, FIX protocol).
• Experience integrating automated tests into Jenkins/Azure CI/CD.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with JMeter or Gatling for performance testing.

Senior/Lead level. Hybrid in Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk or Warsaw.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Information Technology, Consulting, and Project Management. Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting.

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