Tester with development skills ( Contract )

Position Description

This position will work closely with various equities (cash and derivatives) trade engine development teams to create and execute a framework for Scale/Capacity/Resiliency development, architecture, and testing for the Velocity program. Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

- Coordination of test plans with developement teams as new features and products are scheduled
- Test execution and coordination for all Velocity flows
- Development of automation for linux admin commands (ksh/csh/perl)
- Metrics gathering for network/infrastructure/application capacity for all trade flows
- Architecture of resiliency scenarios for all applications and infrastructure components
- Thorough documentation on test plans, test results, executive summaries for senior management
- Development of scripts for data mining and execution of admins for compiling statistics during test execution
- Ownership of Scale/Resiliency environment

Skills Required

Securities trade plant IT background
Unix/Linux/scripting (ksh/csh)
C/C++
Perl
Python
Experience with plant capacity testing/resilience
Understang of low-latency trading infrastructure and multicast environments