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Staff Quality Engineer II

Staff Quality Engineer leads test strategies and automation for complex financial trading systems in fintech. Requires 8-12 years experience, expertise in UI/API test frameworks like Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, CI/CD, with TypeScript/Node.js a plus.

155k – 175k
Hybrid8+ YOEQA Engineering

About the role

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)

Compensation

For residents of the Denver, CO the annual salary range for this role is $155,000 - $175,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors.

Skills

PlaywrightCypressSeleniumK6TypeScriptNode.jsCI/CDApi TestingE2E TestingPerformance Testing

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