Software Quality Manager, London Stock Exchange
FX Engineering
Stock exchange in the City of London
Job no longer available
Stock exchange in the City of London
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
- Significant QA experience including Senior QA, QA Lead, or QA Manager roles
- Proven experience leading QA for mission‑critical financial or trading systems
- Strong proficiency in Java
- Expertise in designing, scaling, and maintaining UI automation frameworks
- Strong hands‑on experience with Playwright/Selenium for testing modern React applications
- Experience with cross‑browser, regression, end‑to‑end, integration, GU, and system testing
- Good understanding and hands‑on experience in REST API testing, including validation of request/response structures, payload formats, headers, authentication mechanisms, and integration flows
- Strong skills in:
- TestNG
- Maven / Gradle
- Git (branching, PR reviews, quality gates)
- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI/CD
- Strong SQL skills
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed/event‑driven systems
- Messaging systems
- Network protocols
- FIX protocol testing
- Domain Expertise:
- Understanding of the Electronic Trading ecosystem (FX preferred)
- Experience in FX/NDF pricing, matching workflows, connectivity, and lifecycle validation
- Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication and participant management skills
- Strong leadership and mentoring ability
- Ability to drive cross‑team collaboration and influence technical decisions
Desirable
- AI‑based test automation platforms
- AI‑driven analysis tools (defect prediction, anomaly detection, observability intelligence)
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Software Quality Manager to lead the Quality Assurance function within our FX Engineering domain
- This role is important in ensuring the delivery of high‑quality, reliable, and high‑performance matching and credit management systems
- The Software Quality Manager will drive QA strategy, automation excellence, intelligent quality engineering, governance, and team capability building while working closely with multiple partners across Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Business teams
- The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong proven experience in FX trading, and significant experience leading all aspects of quality in critical financial environments
- Knowledge and experience in NDF, Spot and Forwards trading will be considered for this role
- Quality Leadership & Governance:
- Lead the development and implementation of modern quality control frameworks aligned with organizational policies, compliance requirements, and industry standards
- Define, communicate, and implement quality benchmarks, testing standards, and automation guidelines
- Ensure full traceability through accurate execution, documentation, and audit‑ready reporting of all QA activities
- Test Automation & Engineering:
- Automate testing for large‑scale, business‑critical FX/NDF trading systems
- Build and maintain robust test automation frameworks
- Develop high‑quality automation code/scripts in Java, TypeScript, Selenium, and Playwright to validate complex trading workflows and integrations
- Maintain and evolve automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab)
- Experience in usage of AI to fix test scripts, detect and monitor test flakiness and stability, insights for regression suite prioritisation
- Test Planning & Execution:
- Participate in requirements refinement to translate business needs into functional and non‑functional test scenarios
- Build comprehensive functional test coverage using BDD (Given/When/Then)
- Review and refine NFT test cases from a quality and risk perspective
- Maintain strong regression pass rates through automation improvements and test modernization
- Implement automated suites and generate clear defect reports, dashboards, and trend analysis
- Usage of AI to augment scenario modelling for system testing
- People Leadership:
- Lead and develop Analysts and Senior Analysts through mentoring, coaching, technical leadership, and structured growth plans
- Champion a culture of quality ownership, engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Quant, DevOps, and Architecture teams to ensure high‑quality outcomes
- Tools & Technologies:
- Java, TypeScript, Playwright (Java), Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Maven, Gradle, Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab, SQL, RestAssured, Postman, Jira, Confluence, Kafka (advantage), Swagger/OpenAPI, JMeter, Gatling
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, with a history dating back over 300 years. It operates as a part of LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets infrastructure, as a marketplace to enable stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
The London Stock Exchange has lived through a stream of innovations; from telegraph and telephone, to the Market Price Display System, automatic trade matching, and the digitisation of issuer services. In 2019 it acquired Refinitiv, a financial information company, and in doing so became a global financial news and data business.
Most recently, the London Stock Exchange has made moves to support the evolution of private markets, and further build its presence in this space. It partnered with Floww, a platform that connects investors with private companies, with aims to launch a private primary capital raising facility, as well as explore new technologies and secondary market options for the platform.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO)Prior to joining LSEG in 2018, David was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for over 20 years.
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