Back Office Automation Engineer (QA Engineer)

You will develop and expand automated testing capabilities for complex trading and post-trade systems, working closely with development teams to validate new functionality, data flows, APIs, and trade lifecycle processes. A leading financial services organization is seeking a Back Office Automation Engineer to support a Fixed Income Capital Markets technology environment.

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Back Office Automation Engineer to support a Fixed Income Capital Markets technology environment. This position combines hands-on Python programming, QA automation, and deep understanding of post-trade Fixed Income and derivatives workflows.

You will develop and expand automated testing capabilities for complex trading and post-trade systems, working closely with development teams to validate new functionality, data flows, APIs, and trade lifecycle processes. This is a programming-heavy QA role suited for an engineer who can combine strong automation skills with meaningful derivatives knowledge.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scenarios using Python or Java.
• Expand automation frameworks supporting Fixed Income and derivatives applications.
• Validate post-trade workflows, data lineage, and integration between internal and external applications.
• Develop complex SQL queries for data validation and testing.
• Partner with development teams to review stories, requirements, and automation estimates.
• Perform impact assessments for new features and application changes.
• Maintain test plans, test cases, test data, and automation scripts.
• Support code reviews and continued integration of automated testing into CI/CD processes.

Role Requirements:

• 5 7+ years of application development, SDET, or automation framework development experience.
• Strong hands-on Python programming skills.
• Strong SQL skills, including complex query development.
• Experience developing or expanding test automation frameworks.
• Fixed Income Capital Markets experience.
• Hands-on experience testing post-trade derivatives workflows.
• Working knowledge of swaps and their trade lifecycle.
• Experience with backend, API, integration, and data-focused testing.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development teams.
• Ability to understand complex data and application flows.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience with interest rate swaps, OIS, inflation swaps, swaptions, CDS, repos, TRS, futures, or options.
• Regulatory testing experience within capital markets.
• CI/CD and automated testing pipeline experience.
• Experience supporting trading technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience within hedge funds or other sophisticated capital markets environments.