Senior QA Automation/Manual with Trade lifecycle_Wroclaw, Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk

Location: hybrid work in Wroclaw, Krakow, Warsaw or Gdansk

Project Description:

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

Responsibilities

• Interaction with business stakeholders, end-users, developers, and other QA;
• Lead the Team
• Manual API testing
• Analyzing logs and test results
• Work on backend automation
• Creation test cases in TestRail
• Be pro-active in terms of process building
• Manual testing of desktop application (trading platform)

Mandatory Skills Description

Technical Skills:

• 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 in testing UI built with React or similar
• Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman, 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 Skills Description

• 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, Gatling for performance testing.