Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Trading

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DriveWealth is seeking a hands-on Senior QA Engineer to join its New York City based Quality Assurance team embedded with a product engineering group supporting core trading platforms. The ideal candidate has 8 to 10 years of QA experience in financial services or trading, strong Java, and automation expertise with Cucumber/BDD, RestAssured, Playwright, and TypeScript; you will design and maintain automated test frameworks for API, FIX, and UI and validate end to end trading workflows including margins and crypto assets. You’ll contribute to CI/CD with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, collaborate across Engineering Product and Operations, and drive test strategy and quality improvements. To apply, tailor your resume to highlight trading systems, margin workflows, and automation impact; include concrete examples of test coverage gains and production issue resolutions; note hybrid NYC onsite expectations and visa status; DriveWealth cannot sponsor visas.

DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together. We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us!

About the Role

DriveWealth is seeking a hands-on Senior QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team supporting core trading platforms. This role is embedded within a product engineering team and focuses on building scalable automation, ensuring high-quality releases, and improving testing practices across the SDLC.

The ideal candidate has strong technical automation experience and prior exposure to trading systems, margin products, and crypto asset classes.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Java, Cucumber (BDD), and RestAssured
• Build and execute automated tests across API, FIX protocol, and UI layer
• Validate end-to-end trading workflows including order lifecycle, margin flows, and post trading
• Create test plans, scenarios, and regression suites for financial systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions)
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot defects, and improve test coverage
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams on testing strategy and quality improvements
• Participate in test reviews, bug triage, and production issue analysis

What You’ll Need

• 8–10 years QA experience in financial services or trading platforms
• Strong hands-on programming in Java
• Automation experience with Cucumber / BDD, RestAssured, Playright, Typescript
• Experience testing REST APIs and FIX Protocol, Kafka
• Knowledge of Margin trading and Crypto asset workflows
• Experience with AWS, Git, Jenkins, SQL/Postgres
• Familiarity with JIRA and test management tools (Allure Testops)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time.

Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health resources 
• Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country)
• Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
• Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development
• Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement
• Company-provided phone (varies by country)
• For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only)
• Employer 401K match (US only)

Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us at [email protected].

Agency Disclaimer

DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.