QA Engineer

Pico is a rapidly expanding Fintech company that offers innovative, transparent, low-latency markets solutions from a portfolio of best-in-class products coupled with an agile and expert service delivery platform. We help our clients to efficiently scale their business and quickly access global financial markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with various international offices including, London, Dublin, Madrid, Krakow, Singapore and Tokyo.

QA Engineer

Corvil is expanding its test engineering team. The QA team is responsible for ensuring the quality of its high performance, real-time analytics products, utilising the latest software and hardware technologies. Our team delivers innovative, automated testing solutions to verify the accuracy, performance, functionality, stress, resilience and use case validation of the company’s products.

The successful applicant will be part of a collaborative, passionate and highly technical QA team. Operating in an agile environment, the QA Engineer will be responsible for designing comprehensive test strategies that ensure our industry leading product is high quality.

Responsibilities and Duties (include but not limited to):

• Work within a cross-functional team following agile software development techniques to test new product features.
• Ensure the quality of all deliverables in all levels of the product life-cycle, from requirements analysis to test design and implementation
• Implement cost-effective test strategies, design and maintain test plans and test cases for leading financial and enterprise core product features
• Execute manual/automation tests covering all QA cycles: functional, regression, performance and system testing/characterization
• Use scripting and programming skills to automate tests using python and selenium
• Ensure thorough test coverage for UI, API, and integration layers, verifying data integrity, request/response flows and validating end-to-end user workflows.
• Work within Linux environments to execute tests, analyse logs, and debug failures.
• Track test progress, report results, forecast areas of risk and provide mitigation plans
• Identify product defects, log them in the system and verify them once fixed

Education, Skills and Background

• in Computer Science or related discipline
• 5+ years relevant industry experience, including at least 2 years in a senior role.
• Solid understanding of web technologies and front-end architecture.
• Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or another object-oriented language.
• Proficiency in Selenium WebDriver or similar test automation tools.
• Experience with API testing tools.
• Hands-on experience working in Linux environments and familiarity with network protocols.
• Good knowledge of manual and automated testing best practice.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English-language communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to security and vulnerability testing concepts (OWASP Top 10).
• Experience designing or maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools.
• Industry certifications such as ISTQB, CCNA/CCNP, etc.

Working Arrangements

This is a Hybrid position with [weekly time in the office with the flexibility of working from home]. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. The role holder will be expected to work whatever hours are necessary for the performance of this role (recognizing that it involves multiple jurisdictions/geographies including but not limited to EMEA, USA and APAC).