Software (QA) Engineer

Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Software (QA) Engineer to join our APAC Markets team in Singapore.

The Markets division is responsible for providing market intelligence and liquidity access in addition to developing capabilities for new markets and optimizing access to existing ones.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the architecture, design, and implementation of an automated testing framework to reduce time to market and increase the quality of our product
• Working closely with software developers, testers and stakeholders globally to refine technical requirements for the test framework
• Designing technical testing strategies and heuristics for heavily integrated applications
• Creating and maintaining specification documents for the automation framework

Financial experience is desired, but not required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience programming in Python (2 or 3) in past projects
• Strong general programming and software design skills
• Familiarity with C++, including the ability to read and understand it
• Competence using Linux, and basic knowledge of system administration and environment management
• Familiarity with common, TCP/IP-based computer network protocols, an understanding of network protocols in general (e.g. the OSI model), and knowledge of how to troubleshoot them
• A background using version control systems (ideally including git)
• Experience with modern methodologies such as BDD or TDD
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in the finance industry and in Quality Assurance working with trading systems a strong plus
• Experience working with a test automation framework (Quality Center, JUnit)

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
• International medical insurance
• Free gym membership
• For employees ineligible to participate in the CPF, the cash equivalent of the employer’s CPF contribution
• Free events and workshops
• Donation matching program

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.