Senior Calypso QA Analyst

Project description Work on quality assurance and testing of the Calypso trading platform (v16+) across Rates, Credit, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Backoffice. The role involves end-to-end functional, regression, UAT, and batch/EOD testing covering trade lifecycle, pricing, market data, settlements, accounting, reporting, and reconciliation. The position will collaborate with BA, development, environment, and operations teams throughout release cycles. Responsibilities Design, execute, and maintain functional, regression, and UAT test cases for Calypso. Test trade capture, pricing, lifecycle events, settlements, confirmations, accounting, and back-office processing. Validate EOD and scheduled batch processing, including scheduled tasks, engines, jobs, logs, and task status. Test market data setup and consumption, including curves, quotes, feeds, and valuation inputs, and validate their impact on pricing, P&L, and reports. Test Fixed Income products such as bonds and repos, including related reporting and reconciliation flows. Test Rates/Credit Derivatives covering trade lifecycle and valuations. Perform trade, position, cash, and report reconciliation between Calypso and downstream/related systems. Analyse release-to-release and environment-to-environment differences across trades, reports, extracts, CSV/XML files, and other outputs. Raise clear, evidence-based defects and support defect triage through closure. Execute and monitor Jenkins jobs for regression packs, batch runs, test environments, and file comparisons. Use SQL to validate trade attributes, static data, market data, and post-batch results. Use Linux for log analysis, file handling, job monitoring, and basic environment troubleshooting. Support test planning, change-request coverage, regression execution, and test summary/sign-off activities. Work closely with BA, development, environment, and operations teams during releases. Skills Must have 4–12 years of overall experience in software testing/QA. Mandatory hands-on Calypso testing experience on Calypso v16 or higher. Strong understanding of Calypso trade lifecycle, static data, and relevant Calypso modules. Hands-on experience with Calypso EOD/batch processing and scheduled tasks/jobs. Experience in functional and regression testing of trading/markets applications. Strong understanding of at least one relevant area across Fixed Income, Rates/Credit Derivatives, and Back Office. Experience validating trade, position, cash, reports, extracts, and reconciliation results. Ability to analyse test failures and reconciliation breaks and identify business/technical root causes. Strong test-case design, execution, defect management, and release testing experience. Ability to work effectively within tight, release-driven regression cycles. Nice to have SQL for trade, position, market data, and batch-result validation. Linux/Unix skills for logs, files, processes, and job troubleshooting. Jenkins experience for CI/CD, regression, and batch job execution/monitoring. Market data knowledge covering curves, FX, bonds, credit spreads, and feeds. Domain knowledge of Fixed Income, Derivatives, Backoffice, pricing, P&L, CSA/collateral, and trade reconciliation. Experience with regression comparison tools, CSV/file-diff utilities, or Calypso QA automation. Exposure to related platforms/interfaces such as Murex, MarkitWire, Bloomberg, or schedulers such as Control-M. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent practical experience. Other Languages English: B2 Upper Intermediate Seniority Senior