What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Specialist position at Suncap Technology?
About the Company
What we are looking for: Highly skilled and results-driven Fixed Income Electronic Trading QA/BA with over 7 years of experience in quality assurance, business analysis, and testing for electronic trading platforms in the fixed income market. Proven expertise in functional and performance testing, process analysis, requirements gathering, and driving efficiency in software development life cycles. Adept at identifying issues, analyzing business requirements, and working collaboratively with development, trading, and operations teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality assurance efforts for the Fixed Income Electronic Trading platform, focusing on bonds, derivatives, and other fixed income instruments.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to gather, document, and translate requirements into functional specifications and test cases.
- Conducted extensive manual testing of trading workflows, including order execution, pricing, and risk management functionalities.
- Perform end-to-end testing for integration with external liquidity providers, trading venues, and market data feeds.
- Validated real-time trading, trade life-cycle, trade execution, and settlement processes within the platform.
- Conduct manual testing of Fixed Income applications, focusing on trading platforms for Credit, Rates, ETFs, or Muni Products.
- Work alongside business analysts and product owners to define test cases based on business usage and needs.
- Execute functional, regression, and user acceptance tests to ensure the delivery of defect-free software.
- Generate detailed defect reports, tracked issues through JIRA, and communicated findings to the development team for resolution.
Required Skills
- Fixed Income Trading (Credit or Rates or ETFs or Muni Products)
- Electronic Trading Platforms (MarketAxess, Tradeweb, Bloomberg, Brokertec etc)
- QA/Testing Methodologies (Manual Testing, Regression, UAT, Functional)
- Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- SQL & Data Analysis
- JIRA & Confluence
- End-to-End Testing
Technical Skills
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
OS: Windows * Linux
Programming Languages: Python
Version Control: Git, Bitbucket
Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, TestRail
Other: ION Trading (desirable), Bloomberg Terminal, Tradeweb
