# Staff Quality Engineer II
**Company:** [Forge](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forge)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $169K-$200K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, TypeScript, Node.js, CI/CD, Api Testing, E2E Testing, Performance Testing
**Posted:** 2026-04-15
> Staff Quality Engineer owns test strategies and automation for complex financial trading systems in fintech. Requires 8-12 years testing experience, expertise in UI/API automation frameworks like Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, and fintech domain knowledge.
## Job Description
## 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
Annual salary range: **$169,000 - $200,000** + annual bonus (San Francisco, CA area).
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