Senior Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and owning automated test frameworks for backend services, APIs and user-facing applications
• Developing automated functional, integration and performance testing capabilities
• Working closely with engineering, research, trading and operations teams to define quality requirements
• Identifying weaknesses in existing test coverage and driving improvements across the development lifecycle

Promoting a

• shift-left approach to testing, helping engineering teams identify issues earlier in development
• Participating in architecture and system-design discussions to improve testability
• Validating system correctness, reliability and performance under

high-throughput and low-latency conditions

• Developing testing tools and infrastructure rather than simply writing or executing test cases
• Contributing to engineering standards and best practices around automated testing

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience
• in QA automation, SDET or software test engineering
• Demonstrable experience
• designing and building an automation framework from scratch, including the underlying architecture and technical decisions
• Strong programming ability in at least one of

Preferred

• trading, fintech or financial technology
• AI/LLMs to software testing, such as AI-assisted test generation, automated failure analysis or testing/evaluating non-deterministic AI systems
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as

Python, TypeScript, Go or C++

• Experience using programming languages to build test frameworks, tooling and infrastructure — not simply writing test scripts
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, test design and automation architecture
• Experience integrating automated testing into

CI/CD pipelines

• Previous experience within, ideally involving systematic trading or other complex, data-intensive systems
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with software engineers and research teams

Experience with

Playwright, Pytest or similar modern automation frameworks

Performance and load testing experience using tools such as k6 or Locust

Experience testing

• low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Background in systematic trading, quantitative finance or crypto/Web3

Experience applying

Working knowledge of

SQL and/or NoSQL databases

Experience testing data warehouses, data lakes or streaming/data pipelines