Lead, Tech (QTE)

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $100 billion in investment capital as of June 1, 2026, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since our founding in 1988, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have a significant presence in the world's capital markets, investing in a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies.

We are looking for a Lead, Tech to join the Quality and Test Engineering group based in the firm’s office in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, or Gurugram. The Quality and Test Engineering (QTE) team manages the entire firm’s quality mandate and delivers quality product releases with deep integration in the software development cycle, focusing on functional correctness, scalability, and performance. Our prime motivation is to mature the software development cycle by bringing robust test-engineering practices, automation, tooling, and quality product releases.

WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY: In this position, you will be responsible for developing automation tools/frameworks, understanding the domain, testing and automating complex projects, managing and mentoring a small group of test engineers, and driving innovation by improving on or introducing new tools/processes to improve efficiency and quality. Additionally, you will also collaborate closely with our business domain from a testing perspective. This includes involvement with various asset classes that the firm trades in, working with our state-of-the-art trading systems, exchange connectivity, pricing/forecasting models, and ensuring that our business-critical processes and workflows function exactly as intended. To elaborate further, you will focus on productivity through automation and tooling, developing end-to-end functional and integration test-case scenarios with an exceptional emphasis on the business domain, owning end-to-end QTE processes, and release planning. Furthermore, you will also have to exhibit leadership in test-case development, coordinate test-plan reviews, and generate repeatable test procedures.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Basic qualifications:

• 6 to 8 years of relevant work experience
• The ability to rapidly learn complex domains and model workflows; translate requirements into test strategy
• Experience in building and improving test processes with an increased focus on business context
• Experience validating distributed/microservices systems and event driven workflows
• Experience working with a high-level, object-oriented programming language like Java/C++
• Exposure to scripting languages like Bash/Python
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like jUnit, TestNG, and API test automation
• Exposure to UI stacks like React/Redux
• Working experience in UNIX or one of its flavors
• Familiarity with performance/reliability testing and basic observability

Interested candidates can apply through our website: https://www.deshawindia.com/recruit/jobs/Ads/Linkedin/LeasTechSDEMay24

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Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.