ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your Team

As a member of the ASX test team, you will work closely with Developers, Support Analysts, Business Analysts, Test Engineers,

Automation Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers and Business Stakeholders to review and clarify requirements, strengthen testability,

plan and execute testing, manage defects, report progress and escalate risks and issues to the Test Manager.

Your responsibilities

• Analyze business, functional and technical requirements to ensure completeness, quality and testability. 

• Design, review and execute test cases, test scenarios and test suites. 

• Perform functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression, parallel, operational readiness and production verification testing. 

• Validate trading workflows, order management and market data processing across applicable interfaces and protocols. 

• Prepare and manage test data, environment dependencies and execution readiness activities. 

• Identify, investigate, document and track defects through to resolution. 

• Provide test execution reporting, quality metrics and release evidence. 

• Collaborate with Automation Engineers to increase regression coverage and improve testing efficiency. 

• Participate in risk assessments, test planning, estimations and release readiness reviews. 

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the QE&T Community of Practice. 

• Learn and use of automation tools which are provided by external vendors.

• Improve productivity by using employer approved AI tools in test engineering

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• 5-8 years’ experience in software testing within medium to large technology environments. 

• Strong experience in functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing. 

• Experience with Cloud Jira, Confluence and defect lifecycle management. 

• Knowledge of test planning, estimation, execution and reporting. 

• Ability to analyses requirements and identify test conditions and risks. 

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. 

• Experience working in Agile and/or DevOps delivery models as well as waterfall model.

• Experience or understanding of testing message protocols such as FIX (Financial Information Exchange) or API Testing with Postman or SoapUI that resembles the core concepts.

• Experience in using SQL and reconciliation of large data sets

• Understanding of Linux Operating System and JAVA and ability to use basic Linux commands

Nice to have

• Experience in financial markets, exchanges or trading platforms. 

• Knowledge of FIX, ITCH, OUCH or related market protocols. 

• Exposure to test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Experience with Linux/Unix environments. 

• Performance, resilience or operational readiness testing experience. 

• Experience or knowledge of Kafka and AVRO messages 

• Experience or knowledge of testing data platforms and integrations

• Experience of using AI in test engineering

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at [email protected].

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.