Project Description:

Project for one of the global investment management firm founded in 1989 that manages approximately $40.33 billion in assets as of April 1, 2020. Firm has more than 2,400 employees with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Teams work collaboratively to drive the production of trading algorithm and financial strategies - the foundation of a sustainable, global trading platform. The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform. The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies. In particular: Building the components of a business-critical order management system using the most promising technologies and approaches for designing low-latency systems. High requirements are implied for the system's performance, fault tolerance and reliability. We are looking for a C++ expert developer experienced in building low-latency systems, familiar with different techniques on performance measurement, analysis and optimization. What we offer: ∙ Flexible schedule ∙ Possible business trips to NYC ∙ Exciting challenges and unique experience in the one of the largest hedge funds ∙ English courses ∙ Various professional development programs ∙ The friendly team of professionals; ∙ Remote work from time to time in cases of need

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end testing initiatives throughout the entire SDLC from test planning, test design, test execution, and test reporting. This includes performance testing, stress testing, front end, back end testing, automation testing, includes functional, regression, black box, white box,
• Drive standardization and adoption of Test Automation Technologies to maintain consistency across the company that will allow us to scale as we grow.
• Be a strong quality advocate, collaborating closely with software engineers, designers, and product managers to release revolutionary products.
• Pair with software engineers to identify and prevent gaps with automation/regression coverage and even build frameworks.
• Be part of transforming monolithic applications into more scalable and resilient distributed systems with high quality, using cloud technology.
• Build and improve automation testing frameworks and tools for API and web-based
• Plan, develop, and execute regression, functional, load and other tests • Design, develop, and use frameworks and harnesses for automated testing
• Take full ownership of and maintain a robust QA environment, including test databases and system deployments
• Work closely with the global QA team to design and build integration tests
• Work with developers on improving system testability and creating a testing environment
• Document test plans, procedures, and test cases

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 5+ years of experience in quality assurance, system development, and automated testing
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Experience with Java, good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Experience with Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery
• Working proficiency with Unix
• Have the ability to solve complex problems with practical, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus a plus)
• Experience in automated testing of distributed systems/solutions.
• Experience designing, implementing or enhancing test harness/framework
• Excellent communication, documentation, and analytical skills; attention to detail, thoroughness and strong ownership of work
• Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency, resourcefulness and independence
• Be a self-starter, chase down blockers, and proactively finish projects in a timely manner.
• English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Shift Left Test Automation
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java
• Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Bash-scripting knowledge.