Description
Title: Quality Assurance Engineer/Developer (C++, Linux, SQL)
Position: 6 month contract (Ongoing Project)
Location: Wall Street, New York City, NY
Rate: Up to $800 USD per day
Start Date: Immediate
Key Skills:
Quality Assurance, QA, Engineer, Developer, Algorithm, Information Technology, IT, High Frequency, Equities, Equity Futures, Treasury Futures, FX Futures, Commodity Futures, Market Data Feeds, Automated Trading, C++, Linux, Perl, SQL
Client:
My client is a Tier One Global Investment Bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise, continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.
The Technology division engineers new systems and processes that are at the frontier of banking and investment technology. They support the full range of the Bank's businesses - from the development of cutting edge electronic trading systems to large-scale operational support systems.
The High Frequency Algo group in Rates IT is responsible for implementing the technical platform and algorithms required for automated trading for the cash and futures market. The performance of the software is critical to the platform and has a PnL impact to the firm.
The group concentrates on Equities, Equity Futures, Treasury, Treasury Futures, FX, FX futures, and Commodity futures. The execution platform handles connectivity to the exchanges, market data handling, automated trading, post-trade feed processing, position and PnL reporting and interaction with downstream systems.
The Quality Assurance Engineer/Developer (C++ Linux, SQL) Role:
- Perform manual system testing of the HFA trading components of which most are headless components that will require testing by verifying proper message flow
- Creation of system and regression test plans
- Help manage the test environment and ensure its stability
- Create test scripts using a custom C++ framework to test the application programming interface (API) and functionality of the HFA platform
- Test all aspects of the platform including UI, posttrade processing, circuitbreakers, and trading
Essential Skills:
- Expertise in a Linux environment
- Experience in other Scripting languages (Perl, python, bash, AWK)
- B.S. in computer science or similar technical field
- Experience in C++. Light coding will be necessary
- Knowledgeable in Electronic Trading
- Good communication skills, organizational skills, detailed orientated
Preferable Skills:
- Expertise in SQL
- Knowledgeable in FIX protocol
- Experience with LBM or other messaging Middleware is a bonus
- Knowledgeable in electronic trading directly with US exchanges.
- Experience in algorithmic trading applications
Key Skills:
Quality Assurance, QA, Engineer, Developer, Algorithm, Information Technology, IT, High Frequency, Equities, Equity Futures, Treasury Futures, FX Futures, Commodity Futures, Market Data Feeds, Automated Trading, C++, Linux, Perl, SQL
Contact: Kavi Kumar.