Lead/Senior QA Automation

Project description

Job Description - QA Automation Engineer (Capital Markets / FX Clearing)

Project Description

We are DXC Luxoft Financial Services - an award-winning provider of technology solutions dedicated to the Financial Services sector.

We are building a new high-impact engineering squad in Bucharest to deliver a critical Financial Markets Clearing Platform for FX Swaps, a key component in the global clearing ecosystem. This initiative is part of a highly regulated, low-latency financial platform with strict requirements around resilience, performance, and availability.

You will work in an Agile Scrum environment, contributing to the full testing lifecycle-from test design through automation, execution, and production validation-while adhering to Client engineering standards and SDLC practices.

This role offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical financial systems, ensuring quality for real-time trade processing under strict SLA constraints.

Team Overview

We are building a dedicated squad in Bucharest (Java Developers + QA Automation Engineers) working closely with global teams. The team operates in 2-week sprint cycles, following Agile ceremonies.

The team is responsible for end-to-end delivery of the FX Swaps product, including test strategy, automation, validation, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities
• Design and implement test automation frameworks for the FX Swaps clearing platform
• Develop and maintain automated functional and integration tests (API & microservices)
• Validate real-time trade processing workflows
• Ensure coverage of non-functional testing (performance, resilience, reliability)
• Collaborate with developers to ensure testability and quality-by-design
• Execute and maintain regression test suites and CI/CD test pipelines
• Contribute to test strategy, test plans, and test documentation
• Work with tools such as Cucumber, Orca, and open-source testing frameworks
• Support integration testing with external FX venues (e.g., FX Matching)
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and cross-team collaboration
• Support production validation, releases, and post-go-live activities

SKILLS

Must have

• Core Technical
• Strong experience in test automation (Java-based or similar)
• Hands-on experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks
• Experience testing REST APIs and microservices architectures
• Understanding of databases (Oracle) and SQL
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments

  Testing & Engineering

• Experience with functional and integration testing
• Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, load, resilience)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab)
• Understanding of test automation best practices and frameworks design

  Delivery & Collaboration

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail

Nice to have

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in Capital Markets / FX domain and exposure to distributed systems or cloud environments

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test automation frameworks for the FX Swaps clearing platform
• Develop and maintain automated functional and integration tests (API & microservices)
• Validate real-time trade processing workflows
• Ensure coverage of non-functional testing (performance, resilience, reliability)
• Collaborate with developers to ensure testability and quality-by-design
• Execute and maintain regression test suites and CI/CD test pipelines
• Contribute to test strategy, test plans, and test documentation
• Work with tools such as Cucumber, Orca, and open-source testing frameworks
• Support integration testing with external FX venues (e.g., FX Matching)
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and cross-team collaboration
• Support production validation, releases, and post-go-live activities

Skills

Core Technical

• Strong experience in test automation (Java-based or similar)
• Hands-on experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks
• Experience testing REST APIs and microservices architectures
• Understanding of databases (Oracle) and SQL
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments

Testing & Engineering

• Experience with functional and integration testing
• Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, load, resilience)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab)
• Understanding of test automation best practices and frameworks design

Delivery & Collaboration

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail

Experience

Core Technical

• Strong experience in test automation (Java-based or similar)
• Hands-on experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks
• Experience testing REST APIs and microservices architectures
• Understanding of databases (Oracle) and SQL
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments

Testing & Engineering

• Experience with functional and integration testing
• Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, load, resilience)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab)
• Understanding of test automation best practices and frameworks design

Delivery & Collaboration

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in Capital Markets / FX domain and exposure to distributed systems or cloud environments