Staff Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build comprehensive, bottom-up test strategies for the Platform Services organization
• Write test plans covering various customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal aspects
• Engage in projects from the initiation phase to identify requirement gaps and design failure modes
• Act as a force multiplier to help developers shift testing left
• Automate tests based on priority and business value
• Help adopt best practices to improve code quality
• Collaborate with product, design, information security, and business teams to quickly grasp domain knowledge
• Develop concise, clear, and detailed documentation
• Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and gap analysis
• Provide technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving issues, including determining workarounds or escalating to service owners
• Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to address root causes
• Leverage AI technologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8–12 years of software testing experience
• Experience in fintech, trading, or financial services
• Experience leading quality efforts for internet applications
• Expertise in test automation (UI, API, or other layers)
• Experience enhancing test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, etc.
• Experience in end-to-end (E2E) automation, contract testing, API automation, and load/performance testing
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience mentoring other quality engineers
• Proven track record of teamwork and delivery
• Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups
• Experience with TypeScript and Node.js (strong plus)

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $169,000 - $190,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors.

Schedule

This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in Soho, NY.