Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Intercontinent… · New York

Overview

Job Purpose

The Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and address complex business challenges in the financial sector. The ICE Senior QA Engineer 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 excellent business knowledge/experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to do 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.
• Apply AI driven testing tools.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience as a Quality Engineer, working on low latency client/server applications.
• 5+ years of relevant experience including software design, development, testing and deployment.
• Must have 3+ Linux/Unix experience.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Java, C++ or similar.
• Must have SQL experience.
• 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.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with trading and financial applications is a plus. Also, knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience in using AI tools.
• Experience with supporting production changes, UAT testing and debugging prod issues.
• Results Driven: Drive, 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 tight schedules/deadlines and multitask.
• Teamwork: Internal communication is always a team effort. It is important to have the ability to interact positively and confidently with others and have resilience, determination and focus to succeed in shared objectives
• Pushing Boundaries: The ability to challenge the status quo and actively look for new approaches and inspiration to improve the department’s results and processes.
• Operational Excellence: A passion for quality and a practical focus on getting the right results in the right way. Ensuring that decisions are fully implemented. The ability to anticipate and plan for significant changes in the organization, markets and customer requirements.
• Experience using AI‑driven testing for test generation, regression optimization, and analysis.

New York Base Salary Range

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $125,000 - 170,000 USD.  The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation.  While we provide this range as general guidance, at ICE we compensate employees based on the skillset and experience of the individual. Regular full-time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

#LI-MA1 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.