What you will be responsible for
As Individual Contributor (Hands-on QA Automation Engineer / SDET)
SME in Capital Markets domain with strong knowledge of Trading systems, including Equities, FX, Futures, Fixed Income, and FIX Connectivity.
Work closely with Business Analysts and Development teams to understand business requirements and validate enhancements delivered on trading platforms.
Hands-on experience in functional, integration, and regression testing of trading platforms such as ION Minerva, CRD, or similar OMS/EMS platforms.
Strong experience across the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including requirements analysis, test planning, test case design, test data preparation, regression test selection, test execution, defect validation, and test reporting.
Expert in creating End-to-End test scenarios, detailed test cases, BDD feature files, and maintaining test assets in JIRA/Xray.
Strong hands-on experience with Java, BDD, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, Maven, Git, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and Oracle databases.
Experience designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing reusable automation frameworks, including hybrid and data-driven frameworks.
Strong hands-on experience in UI and API automation using Playwright/MCP, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Postman, and SOAP UI.
Perform automation feasibility analysis, framework development, script creation, execution, debugging, and maintenance of automated test suites.
Execute API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end test automation across multiple applications and environments.
Analyze test results, investigate failures, identify root causes, and work closely with developers to validate fixes.
Raise, track, retest, and verify defects through closure while maintaining clear defect documentation in JIRA.
Validate data integrity through backend database testing and service-level verification.
Contribute to continuous improvement of test automation, CI/CD integration, test coverage, and overall testing efficiency.
Support release validation activities by executing functional and regression test suites and providing quality-related test evidence.