Location: New York , New York
Salary/Pay Range: $125k–$170k
Job Description
This is a fulltime REMOTE position. Must currently be located in the US and be able authorized to work in the US for any employer without a visa transfer.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.
- Develop end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites for web-based trading applications and APIs.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation of releases.
- Collaborating with Product Managers, Developers and stakeholders to improve delivery quality through automated testing
- Collaborate with developers to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality standards.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and work with engineering teams to drive resolution.
- Create and maintain test data, mocks, and stubs for complex trading workflows.
- Validate performance and reliability of UI components under real-time trading conditions.
- Contribute to test coverage improvements and reduce manual testing dependencies.
- Participate in release cycles, including smoke testing and production validation.
- Document test frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
- Leading test automation initiatives and CI/CD quality integration
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will be highly technical, detail-oriented, and experienced in automation within complex systems, with:
- Proven leadership in QA/testing roles, with experience guiding teams and managing delivery in Agile environments (Kanban).
- Strong experience with Playwright (or a comparable framework) for test automation
- Strong understanding of web application testing.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and Javascript
- Good knowledge of HTML5
- Experience building automation frameworks from scratch
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Experience testing REST APIs and web-based applications
- Understanding of modern frontend architectures (React, Angular, or similar)
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills
- Familiarity with test reporting tools and frameworks
- Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking systems
Preferred:
- Experience in financial systems, electronic trading, or capital markets
- Knowledge of React
- Programming skills in Java
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing, automation frameworks and modern QA tooling
- Experience with mocking frameworks such as Mock Service Worker (MSW)
- Familiarity with Selenium or Cypress
- Knowledge of FIX protocol or market data systems
- Exposure to performance or load testing tools
- Experience working in Linux environments
