Manual QA Engineer

DASH Financial Technologies is looking for a Junior or a middle-level tester to perform functional testing of our ultra-low latency applications.

Responsibilities:

• Manual testing of multiple backend applications (in Linux servers) which are used for routing orders from clients to US options and equity exchanges
  • Routing applications are pure backend, written in C++, no GUI
  • They are running on Linux platform
  • Low latency and high throughput are major factors
• Creating test plans, test cases, test reports
• Creating tickets/issues in JIRA
• Creating supporting documentation for testing in Confluence

Required skills:

• + years of experience in QA, where 1+ year is as a server-side (Linux servers ) testing
• Profound knowledge in *nix platforms on an experienced user level (run applications, copy files, grep huge logs, cat, sed, vim/nano editors, bash scripting, etc.)
• Experience with SQL databases, e.g.: Oracle and/or Postgres
• Familiar with XML, messaging protocols, etc.
• Basic knowledge of TCP/IP stack, networking, etc.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle
• Practical experience in implementing various test design techniques and testing methodologies
• Ability to combine good communication and technical skills
• Intermediate+ level of English
• Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Math or other related disciplines is a plus
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Desired skills:

Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Math or other related disciplines

• Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Experience/knowledge in Capital Markets domain (especially US equities and options)
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, bash) to be able to participate in automatic testing
• Аbility to investigate and catch on work with the current Python-based framework as an automation testing solution for FIX protocol

Technology stack:

• C++
• Python
• Oracle/Postgres DB
• CI/CD – TeamCity, Octopus
• FIX
• JIRA, Confluence