Python SDET- Trading platform- Contract

Reference: 98249PYTHON_1789147396

Python SDET | Trading Platforms | Contract

Python SDET required for a leading financial markets organisation building and enhancing high-performance trading systems.

This role sits within a highly technical engineering team responsible for mission-critical trading platforms, market data services and distributed microservices. You'll play a key part in designing automated test frameworks, driving quality engineering practices and embedding automation throughout the CI/CD delivery lifecycle.

Essential Skills

  • Strong Python development experience
  • Commercial PyTest automation experience
  • SDET / Software Engineer in Test background
  • API and integration testing
  • Microservices and distributed systems
  • CI/CD pipeline automation
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • SQL and data validation
  • Linux environment

Highly Desirable

  • Equities, FX, Fixed Income, Commodities or Crypto trading platforms
  • Market data systems
  • Kafka or messaging technologies
  • Contract testing (Pact, PactFlow or similar)
  • AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Low latency or high-throughput systems

What You'll Be Doing

  • Building robust Python automation frameworks using PyTest
  • Designing integration, API and end-to-end test solutions
  • Automating validation across trading workflows and market data feeds
  • Working closely with developers, quants and platform engineers
  • Driving test automation within modern CI/CD pipelines
  • Improving system quality, reliability and release confidence

Experience Required

We're particularly interested in engineers who have worked on electronic trading platforms, market data systems, exchange connectivity, order management systems, pricing platforms or other real-time financial systems.

Python | PyTest | SDET | Trading | Market Data | APIs | Microservices | CI/CD | Docker | Kubernetes

Please send across an updated CV if this position is of interest

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

COMPETITIVE SALARY
Added 11/09/2026
Reference: 98249PYTHON_1789147396

Python SDET- Trading platform- Contract

London, England, United Kingdom Contract Testing & QA

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