Front Office Automation Engineer (QA Engineer)

The ideal candidate understands how Fixed Income products, particularly swaps, behave throughout the trading lifecycle and can translate that knowledge into effective automated test coverage. A leading global financial-services organization is seeking Front Office Automation Engineers to support the modernization of its Fixed Income sales and trading technology.

A leading global financial-services organization is seeking Front Office Automation Engineers to support the modernization of its Fixed Income sales and trading technology. This position combines hands-on Python programming, QA automation, and deep Capital Markets knowledge.

You will design and execute automated testing across trading applications, APIs, user interfaces, and end-to-end trade workflows. The ideal candidate understands how Fixed Income products, particularly swaps, behave throughout the trading lifecycle and can translate that knowledge into effective automated test coverage.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain automated test suites for Fixed Income trading applications.
• Build Python-based automation for front-office sales and trading workflows.
• Perform API, UI, functional, regression, component, and integration testing.
• Validate trading workflows across complex Fixed Income and derivative products.
• Partner with developers, QA engineers, and front-office stakeholders to establish testing priorities.
• Analyze test failures, identify defects, and collaborate with engineering teams on resolution.
• Build test coverage around trade lifecycle events, financial calculations, and business requirements.
• Maintain clear test plans, test data, execution results, and defect documentation.

Role Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Python programming experience.
• Professional QA or test automation engineering experience.
• Direct experience within Fixed Income Capital Markets.
• Strong understanding of interest rate swaps and associated trading workflows.
• Experience building API automation.
• Experience building UI automation.
• Experience testing trading platforms or sales and trading applications.
• Understanding of functional, regression, integration, and component testing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience with OIS swaps, inflation swaps, swaptions, CDS, repos, futures, options, or total return swaps.
• Selenium, TestNG, or comparable automation framework experience.
• Market data testing experience.
• Regulatory or trade lifecycle testing experience.
• Experience supporting trading-platform modernization initiatives.