TRADING SYSTEMS QA ENGINEER CONSULTANT

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 SEND YOUR RESUME TO MENTION JOB 1133 IN THE SUBJECT BOX