Software Engineer in Test

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer who is passionate about delivering quality, reliability, and exceptional customer experiences across complex trading and financial systems. In this role, you will partner closely with engineering, product, security, and business teams to drive testing strategy, automation, and quality across infrastructure and platform initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute comprehensive testing strategies for platform, infrastructure, and release initiatives
• Create and maintain test plans covering functional, integration, compliance, and customer-facing use cases
• Drive test automation across UI, API, and system-level testing using modern automation frameworks
• Collaborate with engineering teams early in the SDLC to identify risks, requirement gaps, and potential failure points
• Support defect analysis, root cause investigation, and continuous quality improvement efforts
• Leverage AI-driven testing approaches and contribute to improving automation frameworks and quality processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent software engineering experience)
• 5-10 years of software quality engineering or testing experience
• Experience testing financial services, fintech, trading platforms, or other highly regulated systems
• Strong experience leading quality initiatives for web-based applications
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as:
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Selenium
• K6
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Required Skills

• Software quality engineering and testing for complex trading and financial systems
• Defining and executing comprehensive testing strategies
• Creating and maintaining test plans for functional, integration, compliance, and customer-facing use cases
• Test automation across UI, API, and system-level testing using modern automation frameworks
• Collaboration with engineering, product, security, and business teams
• Defect analysis, root cause investigation, and continuous quality improvement
• AI-driven testing approaches

Preferred Skills

• Experience with:
• End-to-End (E2E) Automation
• API Automation
• Contract Testing
• Performance & Load Testing
• CI/CD pipeline experience
• Experience mentoring Quality Engineers
• Proven success in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Startup experience preferred

Pay range and compensation package

• Benefits available to contract/temporary professionals, include medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
• Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive, diverse, and respectful work environment for all employees and contract/temporary professionals.