QA Automation Engineer

#vacancy #Cyprus

We are looking for a highly experienced QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our real-time trading systems in a global Forex/CFD environment.

For Cyprus this is a role in the office (hybrid policy, 3 days in Limassol office per week).

You will work closely with developers, product teams, and dealing/risk departments to design robust automated testing frameworks for pricing, order execution, trading cores, market data feeds, risk engines, and integrations with external liquidity providers.

Responsibilities

Automated Testing
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive automated test suites covering:
• order execution flows
• market data distribution
• risk calculations
• Build frameworks for deterministic simulation of trading scenarios and edge cases.

Performance & Stress Testing
• Implement and manage stress, latency, throughput, and stability tests for:
• trading cores
• pricing engines
• real-time message pipelines
• Detect bottlenecks, resource leaks, deadlocks

Quality Engineering & Analysis
• Analyze business requirements, trading/risk logic, and code to ensure full test coverage of critical flows.
• Work with developers and quants to identify root causes, validate fixes, and improve system resilience.
• Build tools to automate operational testing tasks and regression checks.

Automation Operations
• Ensure reliability of tests in distributed environments with eventually consistent data.
• Maintain and improve AI framework.

Qualifications

Essential
• Extensive experience in test automation and software development (5+ years preferred).
• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Strong experience with AI tools and agentic approach.
• Strong understanding of:
• concurrent systems
• distributed microservices
• event-driven architectures
• Experience testing systems that use:
• API (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Message brokers (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams)
• Deep understanding of software testing principles:
functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, non-functional requirements.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (profiling, metrics, logs, distributed tracing).
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.

Nice to Have
• Understanding of the Forex trading domain, including:
• order types
• execution models (A-book/B-book)
• market data (ticks, L2)
• risk systems (margin, exposure)
• Experience testing FIX protocol integrations.
• Experience with:
• Docker/Kubernetes
• GitLab CI/CD
• monitoring/observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)