Software Engineer – Quality Assurance

Software Engineer – Quality Assurance
My client is a high-frequency proprietary trading firm seeks a Software Engineer to join the Engineering Productivity team.
The Engineering Productivity team helps reduce the time from concept to deliverable by providing our development teams with the tools, practices and support to increase their productivity while maintaining high quality standards
Responsibilities
• Contributing to the architecture, design, and implementation of an automated testing framework to reduce time to market and increase the quality of our product
• Working closely with software developers, testers and stakeholders globally to refine technical requirements for the test framework
• Designing technical testing strategies and heuristics for heavily integrated applications
• Creating and maintaining specification documents for the automation framework
Financial experience is not required.
Qualifications
• 2-3 years of experience programming in Python (2 or 3)
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong general programming and software design skills
• Familiarity with C++, including the ability to read and understand it
• An understanding of networks and Linux systems, in conjunction with, testing server level systems
• Familiarity with common, TCP/IP-based computer network protocols, an understanding of network protocols in general (e.g. the OSI model), and knowledge of how to troubleshoot them
• Strong familiarity with git version control system
• Extensive knowledge of and some experience with modern methodologies such as BDD or TDD
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in the finance industry and in Quality Assurance working with trading systems a strong plus
• Having knowledge of low level devices like kernel bypass network cards and FPGA a strong plus