QA SDET Engineer

Quality Assurance Sdet Engineer

Come join oneZero Financial Systems! An exciting, fast-growing company with headquarters in Somerville MA, oneZero empowers banks, brokerages and hedge funds with cutting edge trade routing and execution technology. Our platform, deployed with 200+ entities globally, features a low-latency trading environment, integrations to the world's leading execution venues, and reliable IT infrastructure and technical support—all designed to be customized and scaled to serve any business model and any size of market participant. We take pride in our great work atmosphere and highly motivated team of engineers. We are currently looking for a motivated and talented Quality Assurance SDET Engineer to join our QA team in Johannesburg, South Africa.

At oneZero, we develop a high performance ultra-low latency trading and finance platform that sends terabytes of data to our AWS platform on our data analytics platform. We are also developing and integrating our Autochartist analytic platform into our main platforms. We are looking for a computer science graduate or trained software engineer who is looking to work with a world-class software team. In this role, you will grow your career through teamwork, becoming an expert in trading/finance/data analysis via testing and developing code to ensure we deliver high quality software and validate our large data sets.

Duties:

• Financial Domain Expertise: Work as part of an agile squad to learn and become a user/test expert in FX currency, commodity and cryptocurrency trading and trading analytics.
• Application Expertise: Develop in-depth understanding of our applications; how to deploy, configure, perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, DB, etc to determine defect root cause. Analyze Epics and stories to confirm they are "automation ready" when delivered.
• Backend Test Automation Development: Work with and enhance, maintain and refactor automation frameworks. Work with other developers and automation QA members to build out automation in new application areas ideally using existing automation frameworks to create and maintain C# based test automation or possibly using python or another appropriate dev stack aligned solution. Follow the same development and coding standards as application software developers to develop, enhance, and maintain automated tests across the oneZero product line.
• Focus on Quality: Develop tests through the lens of an end user. Do this by working as part of an Agile squad with developers, QA, design, product, IT and operations teams to understand functional requirements and end user use case scenarios. Make yourself aware of issues of priority importance to our client user base. Learn how our largest and most sophisticated users of our applications use our software daily and test to ensure their business continuity. Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, and compliance.
• Agile and CI/CD: Collaborate as a member of an agile squad to test and automate epic/story acceptance criteria as well as end to end integration testing needs within sprints. You will attend regular standup meetings, provide status and understand what functional/non-functional and negative test cases need to be covered. Prioritize key tests for automation within the sprint/release time frame. Ensure all of your automation is CI/CD complete and running within a release.
• Workmanship: Understand our various solutions for testing and identify the right tool for the job. Work with BDD/Gherkin, Reqnroll, DB/SQL, Selenium, Postgres/Mongo DB & C# based automation frameworks, performance solutions, big data test tools, Salesforce, ansible. and test case management tools, ability to work on a highly customizable application. Keep on top of industry trends and innovations that can be incorporated into our work.

Requirements:

• Programming Experience: Experience in C#/Java/Python, JavaScript and SQL to work autonomously while collaborating closely with the broader team to quickly become a productive and efficient test automation developer
• IT Skills: Know how to setup and configure servers and manage databases (Postgres/mongo)
• Code Quality & Readability: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following our coding standards emphasizing maintainability, readability and optimized performance. Able to review code and ensure peers are following coding standards.
• Business Orientation: A constant level of attention to detail, able to produce final testcase at high levels of quality and coverage of both clearly defined use cases, but also digging in and understanding outlier and end user integration cases
• Cooperation: A positive, team-oriented attitude. Our team has exceptional productivity and high employee morale because we respect one another and work well together. Plus, the complex nature of the work requires very good collaboration and communication to achieve our common goals.
• Results-Orientedness: Self-motivated and set high professional standards. Willing to proactively seek out others and look for alternative possibilities when facing high priority difficulties and work to get them resolved in a timely manner. Will also, be an advocate for change if you identify better solutions to obstacles that may come up.

Required experience:

• Experience working in finance and ideally on an institutional financial trading product
• Python/C#/Java/JavaScript, SQL proficiency and/or relevant degree/experience.
• QA best practices experience in agile
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g., Git).
• Experience with test automation frameworks
• REST API experience

Additional Requirements

• Must have current legal authorization to work in South Africa

Pluses:

• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS/Big data)
• IT background or experience
• Prior work experience that followed Kaizen principles
• Experience and interest in using AI to help make you a better programmer and improve our code base.