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ForgeForgeNew York, NY

Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Senior SDET building test automation frameworks, AI-augmented testing solutions, and comprehensive test strategies for Forge's financial trading platform and infrastructure. Requires 5-10 years software testing experience, fintech domain knowledge, and fluency with tools like Playwright, Cypress, and CI/CD pipelines.

175k – 205k/yr
On-site5+ YOEQA Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build comprehensive bottoms-up test strategies for infrastructure changes and releases
  • Build test automation frameworks, tools, and solutions to make testing faster, more efficient, and stable
  • Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to augment testing activities, including agentic automation, MCPs, RAG applications, etc.
  • Write test plans covering various customer use cases – functional, compliance, and legal aspects
  • Engage in projects from the initiation phase to identify gaps in requirements and failure modes in design
  • Automate tests based on what’s most valuable and high priority
  • Collaborate with product, design, information security, and business team members to quickly grasp domain knowledge
  • Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation
  • Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and test gap analysis
  • Provide technical assistance in the diagnosis of issues
  • Assist in identification of defect trends and partner with development teams to fix the root cause

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or 5 years software engineering experience)
  • 5-10 years of software testing experience
  • Fintech, trading, or financial services industry experience
  • Experience leading quality efforts for internet applications
  • Experience in test automation on UI, API, or others
  • Experience enhancing existing test automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, etc.)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Fluency with AI technologies related to testing and validation

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in E2E automation, contract testing, API automation, load, and performance testing
  • Experience mentoring other quality engineers
  • Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery
  • Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups

Compensation

For residents of the San Francisco, CA area, the annual salary range for this role is $175,000 - $205,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors.

Skills

test automationPlaywrightcypressseleniumk6CI/CDai testingFintechapi testingui testinge2e testingperformance testing

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