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Software Engineer (Test)

New York, New York, United States

The Role

The Global Operations Technology team at Schonfeld is tasked with creating a platform that serves as the golden data source for post trade operational data – transaction capture, near real-time positions, start-of-day position, end-of-day position, trades, executions and P&L. The team is responsible for

  • Drop copy and FIX integrations for post trade across our multi-manager multi-strategy platform.
  • Building and managing positions across a wide array of asset classes including listed and OTC products.
  • Building and maintaining all systems related to the fund’s intraday and end of day trade reporting facilities across all investments to our Prime Brokers, Fund Primary and Shadow books of record systems.

What you’ll do 

The QA Automation Engineer will work with both technical and business stakeholders to understand present and future requirements and implement an automated testing framework. This will include assessing all functional and non-functional features of the applications, determining and solving for any existing interference with automated testability, creating and implementing an automated testing plan, and using Python/Java to perform functional, regression and smoke testing. The ideal candidate will work with the team in creating tests in parallel to the development of features and enhancements.

What you’ll bring
What you need:

  • Commercial experience of quality assurance in financial services
  • Experience working with automated testing and test suite maintenance
  • Experience with testing of server and database layers
  • Experience with Relational Databases
  • Experience with Apache Kafka
  • Experience with RESTful services
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Expert Python/Java development skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

We’d love if you had:

  • Experience using Pytest
  • Experience with Portfolio management and Post trade infrastructure
  • Experience with testing front-end/GUIs
  • Experience testing FIX Protocol

Our Culture

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture
Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative, and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.

We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming and supportive.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $100,000 and $160,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

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