SSUSA Job #1133: TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

Job Description

TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT
One of our financial services clients is seeking a consultant to work with their QA group across their institutional trading platforms. You will be required to work 5 day work week with 3 days per week in the office in NYC. You will design and execute tests that validate complex financial workflows, from order routing through P&L calculations, working closely with trading desks, operations groups, business groups, and a core development team. This is an individual contributor role focused on uncovering defects early in the SDLC and improving product quality for our professionals and our institutional clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Test strategy and design
Translate business and regulatory requirements into detailed, repeatable test cases, with preconditions and acceptance criteria in Jira
Author and maintain test plans, documentation, and checklists in Confluence and GitHub
Apply risk-based testing to prioritize high-impact scenarios
Functional and domain testing
Build and maintain tests validating trade life cycle events across equities and derivative products
Verify complex financial calculations (P&L, fees/commissions, etc.) with in-house tools and golden data sets
Integration and data integrity
Execute integration tests spanning internal systems and vendor platforms; validate FIX sessions and drop copies
Test API interactions (REST, gRPC) and data flows end-to-end
Write reusable SQL queries and scripts to validate data correctness across relational and NoSQL stores
Automation and execution
Trigger and suggest extensions of Playwright-based automation test suites
Design manual exploratory tests that identify realistic edge cases and usability issues
Analyze test results, isolate defects, and partner with the dev team for root cause analysis
Flexibility and Communication
Track defects in Jira, providing clear status and coverage metrics to the QA Lead
Represent QA in daily stand-ups and ad hoc project meetings
Support product deployments after-hours and on weekends

QUALIFICATIONS:

Availability during EST and overlapping NYSE hours; willingness to support after-hours/weekend release validation
2+ years of professional experience in institutional capital markets
Ability to describe the trade life cycle and differentiate order routing/execution types
(high touch, electronic, algorithmic, upstairs)
Hands-on experience validating P&L across equities, fixed income, and derivatives
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication skills (comfortable asking questions and challenging assumptions)
Big-picture, risk-based testing mindset to prioritize high-impact scenarios

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Job Location
New York City

Position Type
Consulting

Salary Range
$40-$55 PER HOUR