displayName
Trading System Failover Drill
workflowKind
operational
triggerType
scheduled
typicalCadence
quarterly
complexity
cross-team
description
Tests disaster recovery and business continuity for trading
infrastructure — executing planned failover of order management
systems and execution management systems to secondary data centers,
validating market data feed reconnection and gap-fill procedures,
testing FIX session re-establishment with broker and exchange
gateways, verifying position and order state recovery from persistent
stores, measuring recovery time objectives against regulatory and
business requirements, and conducting tabletop exercises for extended
outage scenarios. Produces DR test reports with RTO/RPO measurements,
gap findings, and remediation action items. Excludes production
trading activity and strategy deployment.