2. Exactpro Systems Company Overview
Exactpro is:
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A specialist firm focused on functional and non
functional testing of securities data distribution,
trading systems, risk management and post-trade
infrastructures
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An independent company incorporated in 2009 with
10 people, now employing over 200 specialists
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Our locations in Russia:
A US company registered and head-quartered in San
Rafael, California, with four QA & development
centres in Russia and sales support in the UK
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3. Exactpro Systems Existing Customers Include:
A major investment bank specializing in
emerging markets
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A major stock exchange group with a range of
capital markets, post trade and information
services
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A leading global derivatives (financial and
commodities) broker
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One of the most prominent international
interdealer brokers in fixed income and OTC
derivatives
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A global equities broker offering program
and single name execution
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A significant commodity exchange and its
clearing arm
A software provider of adaptive trading
technologies for international buy- and sell-side
firms
Software vendors providing advanced trading
platforms and algorithmic support
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4. What Makes Exactpro Different?
• Automated testing (and analysis of results) wherever possible
Build Software To Test Software
Highest Calibre Technical Teams
Stability
Work Ethos/Culture
Cost/Value
• We develop and use our own test tool suite & create new test tools as needed *
• Test Automation is in our DNA, our tool set is a key part of our added value!
• Core of highly experienced industry consultant practitioners
• Deepest domain expertise of instruments/contracts, market data, exchanges,
workflow, functionality, risk models, industry standards, etc.
• We attract the best graduates through close links with Russian technical
universities
• Extensive internal training program to grow our talent pool
• Extremely low levels of staff turnover
• High levels of customer retention
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Proactive and flexible approach to engaging with the project team
High energy, determination and discipline
Attention to detail
Work on customers chosen time zone
• Very attractive offshore rates
• Majority of work carried out offshore (via remote access)
• The added value we bring to projects has been proven to maximize the
potential for delivery on schedule
* We also use open source tools where applicable, and we are well versed in the QA
industry standard tools & hence can use those where it is customer policy to do so
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5. Exactpro Builds Software to Test Our Clients’ Software
Sailfish:
• Can test Order Entry, Market Data and Post
Trade connections in one test scenario
• Each test scenario is independent
• Allows running test scripts in any sequence
• Simulation of multiple user connections
• Server simulators
• All messages are stored into a data base
• Generates test reports
Shsha:
• Post-transactional tool
• Analyzes clients' activity and forecasts system response
• Parses and displays logs in a user-friendly way
• Parses messages and then puts each to a data base
table where each column corresponds to each message
field
• Allows making summarized reports, etc
• Easy to understand GUI
ClearTH:
Microfix:
• Executes multithreaded java
code
• Complexity of test algorithms is
defined by the test developer
• Supports multiple client fix
connections, order entry and
market data via FIX
• Can use GUI to iterate through
sent and received messages
Dolphin:
• Model-based testing
of market surveillance
systems
• Post-Trade testing tool
• Verifies each stage of the
DLC
• Integrated schedule
• Automated matrices
• Can create multiple days
test scenarios
• Concurrent multiple tests
• Integrated simulators
• SWIFT ISO protocol support
Load Injector:
• Simulates multiple client
connections with a
specified load shape for
each connection or a group
of connections
• Up to 75K messages /
second from a single CPU
core
• Measures latencies in
microsecond range
• Performance test reports
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6. Domain Capabilities – We are 100% Focused on Systems that Process
Financial Products, with Particular Focus on Electronic Trading
Order and Execution
Management
Market Venue
Connectivity
Reference Data
Messaging
Clearing and
Settlement
Financial Products
Platforms Pre and Post Trade;
-Commodities, Derivatives
Equities, Fixed
Income, FX
Middle Office
Risk Management
Smart Order
Routing
Algorithmic
Trading
Matching Engines
Deal Capture &
Position Keeping
Market Data
Distribution
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7. We are Highly Effective in All of these Aspects of Quality Assurance
Gathering requirements
and test scenario creation
(human, message & reporting interfaces)
Creating and productizing
state-of-the-art
test harnesses
Test data management
Intelligent Management
of Large Data Sets
Quality Assurance:
test planning and
management
Process audit and test
coverage analysis
Automated regression
testing
Test automation
Intelligent functional and
exploratory testing
Protocol level testing using
FIX/FAST, SOAP, HTTP, ITCH,
SWIFT, MQ, SQL, proprietary
binary and text based
data formats, etc.
Latency & capacity
testing
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8. Related Services: Our Main Customers have asked us to Add Value in Other
Complimentary Areas (in Addition to QA) through which we Gain Additional Depth
Developing trading and post-trade systems and
their components
Supporting legacy
applications
Code review
Complimentary
Areas
(Additional
Depth)
Unit testing
Data cleanup & migration
Business analysis from
historic data
Customization and
integration of trading and
post-trade platforms
Tuning and optimization
Prototyping new systems
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