Lead Automation QA Engineer (Calypso)
Leads QA and test automation for a client's Calypso trading-platform implementation: defines the master test strategy, drives SIT/regression/performance/security/UAT, and builds automated suites with the Calypso Automated Testing Tool, Selenium, JUnit, and Cucumber in CI/CD, managing defects via Jira/Xray.
- Compensation
- $125–$140 / hr
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 25+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Extensive experience leading QA and testing for complex Calypso implementations
- Strong knowledge of Calypso front-to-back workflows (trade capture, pricing, risk, settlements, collateral, SWIFT messaging, accounting postings)
- Experience developing and executing master test strategies for large financial-services transformation programs
- Hands-on experience with the Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT)
- Strong test automation experience with Selenium, JUnit, and Cucumber
- Experience integrating automated test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience leading System Integration Testing, regression testing, and UAT support
- Strong knowledge of test-environment coordination and test-data management
- Experience validating position conversions and complex financial data
- Hands-on experience with performance-testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner
- Knowledge of security-testing practices and OWASP vulnerability-assessment principles
- Advanced experience with Jira and Xray for test and defect management
- Experience producing test metrics, traceability reports, evidence packages, and release-readiness assessments
- Strong defect-management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder-management, and communication skills
- Advanced English level
- Residing in the United States
Full description
Why Join Exadel
We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks.
From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next.
What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving.
About the Client
A leading source of multilateral development financing providing loans, grants, and technical assistance to support economic growth and sustainable infrastructure. Operating alongside its private-sector affiliates, the institution leverages public and private capital to address critical regional challenges. Today, it focuses on climate change, innovation, and digital transformation to improve lives across global markets.
What You’ll Do
- Define, maintain, and execute the Master Test Strategy and detailed test plans
- Establish testing scope, objectives, entry and exit criteria, dependencies, schedules, and quality gates
- Lead testing activities across System Integration Testing, regression testing, performance testing, security testing, position conversion, and User Acceptance Testing support
- Design, build, and optimize automated test frameworks and reusable test suites
- Develop automated tests using the Calypso Automated Testing Tool, Selenium, JUnit, and Cucumber
- Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines
- Direct test-case development and execution across front-to-back Calypso workflows
- Validate trade capture, pricing, risk, settlements, collateral, SWIFT messaging, and accounting postings
- Coordinate test-environment setup, configuration, availability, and maintenance
- Lead test-data planning, provisioning, validation, and refresh activities
- Configure and maintain the tools required to support manual and automated testing
- Coordinate System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing with technical teams, functional leads, and available business testers
- Lead defect logging, triage, severity classification, prioritization, escalation, and resolution tracking
- Manage defects and test execution through Jira and Xray
- Monitor defect response and resolution progress and escalate risks affecting test completion
- Oversee load, stress, batch, and performance testing using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner
- Coordinate security testing and vulnerability assessments based on OWASP principles