Spoon

Quality Assurance Engineer

Spoon

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Arab Emirates

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AzureDockerJMeterKubernetes.NETSQL

About the role

  • Own test automation strategy & governance
  • Define a shift-left test strategy across unit, integration, contract, E2E, performance, security, and resiliency.
  • Establish quality gates (defects, coverage, flakiness budgets, performance SLOs) and release criteria.
  • Shift left testing: requirements → tests → results → evidence traceability model.
  • Build a reusable automation framework
  • Architect a test framework packaged for reuse across CEE teams.
  • Provide libraries/utilities for API, Solace messaging, database, and contract testing.
  • Standardize test data management, deterministic fixtures, and parallel/ephemeral execution patterns.
  • Event-driven architecture (EDA) testing
  • Validate producer/consumer contracts, schema evolution, and topic compatibility.
  • Assert ordering, idempotency, exactly/at-least/at-most-once semantics, replay, DLQ handling, and deduplicate keys.
  • Prove back-pressure, throttling, and consumer lag behavior under bursty market loads; chaos test broker clusters.
  • Enforce schema/contract gates in CI/CD; prevent breaking changes before promote.
  • Data-platform & reconciliation QA
  • Automate data quality checks for market/reference data, order/trade states, and downstream stores (SQL Server/Azure SQL).
  • Implement reconciliation across OMS/EMS, risk, and settlement; verify lineage and PII/PCI masking where relevant.
  • Use SQL and profiling to validate accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and SCD/versioned data behaviors.
  • Manage golden datasets and synthetic market data at scale for repeatable regression.
  • Pipelines, environments & observability
  • Embed suites in Azure DevOps (build → deploy → smoke → regression → perf/security) with mandatory gates (coverage, static analysis, compliance, performance).
  • Orchestrate tests on AKS with Docker/Kubernetes, ephemeral environments.
  • Validate OpenTelemetry to correlate trace IDs across services; validate Application Insights/Dynatrace signals in assertions.
  • Performance & security
  • Baseline latency/throughput; run JMeter/LoadRunner for spike/soak/failover; collaborate on capacity tuning.
  • Automate OWASP checks (ZAP), enforce SAST/DAST and dependency scanning (Snyk) with remediation gating.
  • Leadership & operations
  • Lead QA activities in the project, mentor developers on testability and quality by design.
  • Contribute to incident response, RCA, production canary/verification suites, and reliability playbooks.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in QA/engineering with 5+ in financial/trading systems (order lifecycle, market data, risk controls)
  • Proven delivery of pipeline-integrated .NET automation frameworks and regulated-market audits
  • Deep understanding of EDA QA (contracts, ordering, idempotency, replay, DLQs, back-pressure) and data-quality/reconciliation
  • Hands-on with Azure/AKS, Azure DevOps, and performance/security automation at scale
  • Clear communicator; able to lead cross-functional quality initiatives and coach engineers
  • Strong English proficiency required.
  • ISTQB Advanced/CSTE, Azure Fundamentals / Azure DevOps Engineer
  • Finance certs (CFA/FRM), Agile/Scrum experience
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Hard Skills & Tools
test automation strategyshift-left testingautomation frameworkAPI testingevent-driven architecture testingdata quality checksperformance testingsecurity automationSQLAzure DevOps
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringcross-functional collaborationincident response
Certifications
ISTQB AdvancedCSTEAzure FundamentalsAzure DevOps EngineerCFAFRM