Senior-Lead QA Auto/Manual

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Project Description

Building a trading platform for innovative international top-tier hedge fund from the ground up, comprising of front-office system for traders, pre-trade checks and analysis, intra-day positions management, order management and routing, risks and limits management, reports of trading activities, FIX connectivity, market data providers connectivity (e.g. Bloomberg B-pipe).

Responsibilities

QA will work across multiple teams including developers, devOps, other QA.

o Interaction with business stakeholders, end-users, developers, and other QA;

o Lead the Team

o Manual API testing

o Analyzing logs and test results

o Work on backend automation

o Creation test cases in TestRail

o Be pro-active in terms of process building

o Manual testing of desktop application (trading platform)

Skills

What is relevant to have

Testing Expertise:

-Strong experience in manual and automation testing of both UI and backend (APIs, java microservices)

-Proficiency in functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) testing

-UI Testing (Manual & Automation):

-Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress for UI test automation

-Experience in testing UI built with React or similar

-Backend & API Testing:

-Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman, RestAssured

-Basic experience in database validation (SQL & NoSQL) for backend data consistency

-Microservices & Messaging Systems:

-Understanding of microservices architecture and service-to-service communication.

-Experience with Kafka-based event-driven systems (testing producers/consumers, validating messages).

-Automation & Programming:

-Proficiency JavaScript for test automation.

-Experience with Cucumber, or BDD frameworks.

-Ability to build and maintain test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing.

-Unix/Linux & Scripting:

-Strong experience working with Unix/Linux environments for log analysis, process monitoring, and debugging.

-Ability to write shell scripts for automation tasks.

Soft Skills:

-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

-Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.

-Excellent communication skills to collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams.

-Experience in writing detailed test cases, test plans, and defect reports.

Leadership & Team Management Skills:

-Experience leading QA teams, mentoring testers, and driving best practices.

-Ability to define testing strategies, prioritize test efforts, and improve overall QA processes.

-Experience in collaborating with developers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure high-quality releases.

-Strong decision-making skills and ability to coordinate testing efforts in an Agile environment.

-Experience in hiring, training, and performance reviews for QA team members.

-Ability to drive automation initiatives and ensure alignment with business goals.

Experience:

-5+ years of experience in UI and backend testing (manual & automation).

-2+ years of experience in leading QA teams or mentoring junior testers.

-Experience testing microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and web applications.

What is nice to have

-Business domain experience (Trading, FIX protocol)

-Experience integrating automated tests into Jenkins/Azure CI/CD

-Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

-Experience with JMeter, Gatling for performance testing.

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior

Work mode

hybrid in Gdansk, Wroclaw, Warsaw or Krakow