E Trading Quality Assurance Lead - Assistant Vice President

Overview

Lead end-to-end quality assurance for Citi's electronic trading technology, owning testing from UAT strategy through to production rollout and mentoring junior team members.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end quality assurance across UAT and production rollout cycles for electronic trading platforms, including validation of Futures and Options products, algorithmic trading and execution platform, and electronic order management workflows.
• Design, execute, and maintain automated test suites using Java and Cucumber within a Behavior-Driven Development framework, ensuring test coverage aligns with system and regulatory requirements.
• Define and enforce quality standards and testing procedures across the software development lifecycle, conducting annual reviews and recommending improvements.
• Monitor products and processes for conformance to established standards, identify quality risks, perform root cause analysis, and deliver documented remediation recommendations.
• Validate system behavior against FIX protocol specifications and electronic trading regulatory obligations, ensuring outputs meet technical and compliance benchmarks.
• Act as a quality advisor and mentor to junior team members, providing guidance on testing approaches, standards adherence, and professional development within IT Quality.
• Assess quality-related risks in business and technology decisions, escalating control issues transparently and ensuring corrective actions are assigned, tracked, and resolved to completion.

What you'll need

• 9-13 years experience in an IT Quality or software quality assurance role, with demonstrated ownership across the full testing lifecycle from test strategy through to production validation.
• Hands-on experience testing electronic trading platforms, including solid working knowledge of Futures and Options products, Capital Markets and Derivatives domains, order types, and electronic trading processes.
• Demonstrated experience testing e-Trading lifecycles and workflows, and experience of trading algorithms such as TWAP, VWAP, Iceberg etc., with the ability to validate algorithmic behavior against defined specifications.
• Proficiency in test automation using Java and Cucumber within a BDD framework, including the ability to write, modify, and execute complex automated test scripts independently.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, container environments such as ECS, and version control using GitHub.
• Good understanding of the FIX protocol and regulatory obligations for electronic trading, with the ability to validate system behavior against these standards in a structured and auditable way.
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination skills, with the ability to align project teams, vendors, and global counterparts on quality outcomes across complex, multi-geography programs.

Nice to have

• Project management experience in a fast-paced, time-to-market driven technology environment, with the ability to manage quality workstreams across concurrent deliverables.
• Experience contributing to the development of new testing standards and procedures in collaboration with cross-functional technology teams.
• Familiarity with process audit methodologies and the ability to conduct structured product evaluation and conformance assessments.

Details

• Full-time role in the Technology Quality job family.
• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.