Software Test Engineer
HQLAx is a financial technology company providing a DLT-enabled platform for collateral mobility in securities finance and repo markets. It serves banks and asset managers by enabling precise, real-time transfers of securities ownership without cross-custody asset movement.
Funding history
About HQLAx
HQLAx is a Luxembourg-based, CSSF-regulated financial technology firm that uses distributed ledger technology to improve collateral mobility for the global securities finance and repo industry. Its proprietary platform integrates with existing triparty and custody infrastructure, allowing banks and asset managers to transfer ownership of securities in real time while assets remain with custodians. Its solutions support delivery-versus-delivery securities lending, margin management, and delivery-versus-payment repo, aiming to reduce intraday liquidity usage, settlement risk, and operational complexity.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design, implement, coordinate, and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, resilience, recovery, security, and negative tests across distributed software systems. Develop and maintain test frameworks, stubs, simulators, and test infrastructure, document reproducible evidence and results, support production releases and client integrations, and coordinate testing across environments.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science
- Three or more years of experience testing or building software in JVM-based environments
- Experience testing complex distributed software systems
- Experience testing REST APIs, message queues, and asynchronous workflows
- Experience with performance, resilience, and security testing
- Experience using testing frameworks and tools such as Cucumber
- Experience designing and developing test infrastructure such as stubs, simulators, test harnesses, test rigs, or environment-level tooling
- Critical thinking and communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic high-assurance environment
- Structured and systematic working habits
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in a professional technical context
Responsibilities
- Design functional and integration tests for internal services and external interfaces
- Coordinate and execute end-to-end and cross-party testing with external counterparties
- Perform performance, resilience, failover, upgrade, and recovery testing
- Conduct security and negative testing
- Support vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
- Design, develop, and maintain test frameworks, stubs, simulators, and test infrastructure
- Track and maintain tests, test inputs, execution results, defects, and supporting artefacts
- Plan and execute test activities across multiple environments
Benefits
- Flexible work-from-home arrangements
- Dynamic and energetic professional team
- Technical challenges unique to the fintech industry
- Attractive and competitive benefits package