An Associate Director role in Quality Engineering is available in Chennai. This position focuses on leading the software testing strategy for entire programs or portfolios, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that achieve significant business outcomes. The role emphasizes continuous improvement in testing quality and adherence to enterprise standards.

This is an onsite position requiring a strong background in FX electronic trading applications and extensive experience in leading testing efforts. The successful candidate will leverage their deep domain knowledge to drive testing excellence and implement innovative solutions.

The role offers an opportunity to shape testing methodologies and contribute to the stability and performance of critical trading applications. Collaboration with development teams and stakeholders is key to success.

Define and lead the software testing approach for program or portfolio level solutions, aiming for significant business outcomes. Develop test strategies and plans, continuously enhance test quality, and review test cases. Lead test planning and test case design for complex, multi-team features. Drive automation testing efforts, ensuring adherence to enterprise automation coverage requirements across feature, regression, and performance testing.

Assess and improve performance testing packs. Execute all levels of testing, including System, Integration, and Regression. Serve as a domain/functional expert in FX electronic trading applications and mentor teams on functional aspects. Evaluate and migrate regression testing tools to strategic enterprise automation frameworks.

Manage end-to-end test strategy, creation, and adherence, ensuring seamless integration between teams. Analyze application production stability, identify process improvements, and work with stakeholders to boost testing effectiveness and meet organizational SLAs. Utilize enterprise AI-assisted testing tools, employing strong prompt engineering techniques. Lead cross-training of testing resources and respond to business user queries. Assess and escalate testing risks with mitigation plans, and lead defect triage and root cause analysis.

A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required, along with 12+ years of experience in software testing, specifically within FX front office electronic trading applications. A minimum of 5 years of lead experience is essential.

Essential skills include deep SME business knowledge in FX products (FX SPOT, FX Forward, FX Swap, NDF), a thorough understanding of FX market data, venues, algorithms, electronic trading components, and market making/agency-based FX workflows. Proficiency in understanding distributed systems components like messaging, caching, multicast, and component integrations is crucial.

Candidates must demonstrate strong capabilities in functional, regression, load, performance, and latency testing. Excellent observability skills for interpreting logs and implementing monitoring solutions are necessary, along with strong UNIX command usage. Experience in testing FX flows on multi-dealer platforms, good knowledge of automation testing frameworks, business-driven and test-driven development methodologies are also required. Basic understanding of C++ or Java, proficiency with AI-assisted testing tools and prompt engineering, and strong knowledge of CI/CD flows are expected.