Sr. Principal Quality Engineer

Business Unit Overview:

Global Markets Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by Global Markets Front and Middle office businesses. The business is spread across EMEA, US, Japan, AEJ, and emerging Markets like India, Brazil, and China. It deals in wide range of products including FX, Rates, Credit, Securitized Products, Equities, Futures & Options, FI/EQ Derivatives, and Prime Services including financing.

GMIT India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, Tokyo, Singapore, HK, India and China. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions to GM business across regions prioritized in Global Book of Work. This team serves key business functions such as Pricing, Sales & Research (Pre-Trade), Electronic Trading, Client & Exchange Connectivity (Trading related), Trade Capture & Workflow, Trade Life Cycle Management (Post-Trade), MIS (pre and post trade analysis), Position, Risk Management and P&L (real-time, intraday and EOD),  Interfaces to Corporate Settlement, Risk and Finance systems.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.


• We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.


• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Position Specifications:

Role & Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive QA strategy for Equity Financing platform


• Lead a team of QA engineers, providing technical mentorship and career development


• Design test automation frameworks for focusing on performance, reliability, and accuracy


• Establish quality metrics, testing standards, and best practices across the organization


• Collaborate with business, users and development teams to understand business requirements and align testing needs


• Oversee performance testing, including latency analysis and capacity planning


• Drive continuous improvement in testing methodologies and tools


• Manage UAT processes with trading teams and key stakeholders for front to back initiatives


• Lead incident reviews and implement preventive measures

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field


• 13+ years of software QA experience, strictly in financial services


• 7+ years of experience leading QA teams in trading or similar high-stakes environments


• Strong understanding of global financial markets, trading systems


• Expert knowledge of automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/deployment


• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java or Python


• Strong background in test automation tools and frameworks – Microservices / API/ UI automation


• Handson with GitLab, Jenkins/Gitlab CI


• Good to know monitoring tools such as Grafana/Prometheus

Skills & Competencies

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities


• Strong leadership and team management skills


• Excellent communication skills with ability to interact with all levels of organization


• Strategic thinking with attention to detail


• Risk-aware mindset with focus on quality and reliability


• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).