Intercontinental Exchange

Overview

Job Purpose

ICE presents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and address complex business challenges in the financial sector. The ICE Senior QA position plays a key role in testing and delivering trading, listing, compliance and surveillance applications, while supporting all stages of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).

The successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment, while demonstrating strong problem-solving, extensive technical skills, decision-making abilities and the highest level of professionalism. The candidate is also expected to have a strong programming etiquette and excellent business knowledge/experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform session level, functional, technical, failover and performance testing across the entire stack – application, hardware, firmware, OS and network
• Review code base and make recommendations for testing scenarios; analyze changes introduced and assess the technical testing required
• Work with cross-functional teams to build scenarios in requirements, design and coding phases
• Perform analysis of data from QA and production to build testing tools and scenarios
• Maintain testing and analysis tools; identify any negative changes to both QA and production environments and work with teams to resolve those concerns
• Take the initiative to improve efficiencies across systems/projects
• Support operations, including executing process validations, methodology and audits
• Responsible for building automation in Python to help ensure the delivery of quality trading system applications and drive solutions

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer, working on low latency client/server applications
• 4+ years of Linux/Unix experience. Red Hat is preferred
• 5+ years of relevant experience including software design, development, testing and deployment
• Intermediate to advanced programming/scripting knowledge in Python
• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• Ability to work in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment
• Ability to multitask and work independently on multiple projects
• Ability to differentiate between a critical business impacting incident and a minor problem, and resolve/escalate accordingly
• Experience with supporting production changes, UAT testing and debugging prod issues
• Results Driven - focus and commitment to deliver results that meet the requirements of internal customers along with the passion for quality and getting the right results in the right way.
• Ability to work to tight schedules/deadlines and multitask
• Ability to interact positively and confidently with others and have the resilience, determination and focus to succeed in shared objectives

Preferred

• Experience with Trading and financial applications is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of FIX or Multicast protocol is a plus
• Relevant AWS certifications a plus

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.