Lead QE Engineer

Granite Solutions Groupe; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Commuter benefits/pre‑tax transit

401(k) pre‑tax contributions

Pet insurance options

Job summary

Granite Solutions Groupe seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to join our Trading Platform Engineering team within Investment Implementation & Trading Technology. You will own testing strategy and automation for mission‑critical assets, balancing hands‑on coding with leadership to guide a ~20‑person QE group.

You’ll drive end‑to‑end test design, CI/CD integration, and cloud exposure while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and business teams to ensure high‑quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of QE/testing experience.
• Proven experience leading QE efforts or managing QE teams.
• Deep expertise across multiple testing types, including functional, performance and end‑to‑end.
• Strong hands‑on automation experience with working knowledge of BDD frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, design principles and coding standards.
• Hands‑on experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across levels.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall quality engineering strategy across applications and initiatives.
• Own and evolve test and automation strategies, ensuring alignment with architecture and business goals.
• Lead end‑to‑end test design, execution, and automation across multiple workstreams.
• Drive the development and adoption of scalable automation frameworks and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QE engineers, guide design and execution.
• Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into effective test strategies.
• Establish and enforce quality gates and release standards across the SDLC.
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate delivery risks and quality issues, providing regular updates to stakeholders.
• Lead efforts to diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, and stability issues in complex systems.
• Champion QE best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement, including adoption of AI‑driven testing solutions.
• Lead proof‑of‑concepts (POCs) for new tools, frameworks, and automation approaches.
• Drive and optimize CI/CD integration, enabling continuous testing and faster, reliable releases.
• Collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring alignment and delivery consistency.

Skills

Automation testing

Java development

Gherkin/BDD

CI/CD

Cloud/AWS

Playwright

Leadership

QA architecture

AI-assisted testing

End-to-end testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Playwright

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Job description

Consultant, Quality Assurance

About Our Firm:

Granite Solutions Groupe provides financial services decision makers with people and solutions that deliver. Our clients count on us to deliver the right talent at the right time to achieve critical business results. We leverage our industry knowledge and passion for client priorities to deliver human capital solutions.

GSG was founded in 1998 as a consulting firm delivering project management and technology solutions for the financial services industry. GSG now has a global presence, with team members deployed across the U.S. at Fortune 1000 companies and high-performing Fintech firms.

High-caliber consultants are the face of GSG at our client organizations and offices. We value the deep relationships we have with our consultants that enable us to place them in roles where their skills will have an immediate impact. The GSG consulting team is comprised of diverse, experienced, driven, and dynamic contributors who excel at getting things done.

About the Opportunity:

GSG is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to join our Trading Platform Engineering team within Investment Implementation & Trading (IIT) Technology. In this role you will support business-critical applications in an asset management environment. This role focuses on ensuring high-quality software delivery through testing and automation. You’ll work closely with technology team members and business partners to deliver resilient systems and continuously improve how we build and test software.

Keys to this position:

This is a hands‑on Lead Quality Engineer role supporting our client's mission‑critical Trading Technology platform. The manager needs someone who is highly trusted, technically strong, and capable of “running the show”. Ownership is critical for this role.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong engineering/QE foundation with hands‑on automation experience, not just tool‑based testing.
• Java development or Java‑based automation experience; Gherkin/BDD syntax is important.
• Trading technology domain exposure, ideally OMS, pre‑trade, post‑trade, or broader asset management experience. – This is a nice to have
• CI/CD experience, preferably Jenkins, plus cloud exposure; AWS is ideal, but any cloud is acceptable.
• Automation framework experience, we are using Playwright for UI testing.
• Leadership experience guiding QE engineers, solving failures, improving frameworks, and mentoring team members.
• AI‑assisted development/testing exposure, such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or building/testing agents.
• Ability to be 70% hands‑on and 30% leadership/direction.
• The team has approximately 20 QE professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the overall quality engineering strategy across applications and initiatives.
• Own and evolve test and automation strategies, ensuring alignment with architecture and business goals.
• Lead end‑to‑end test design, execution, and automation across multiple workstreams.
• Drive the development and adoption of scalable automation frameworks and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QE engineers, guide design and execution.
• Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into effective test strategies.
• Establish and enforce quality gates and release standards across the SDLC.
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate delivery risks and quality issues, providing regular updates to stakeholders.
• Lead efforts to diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, and stability issues in complex systems.
• Champion QE best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement, including adoption of AI‑driven testing solutions.
• Lead proof‑of‑concepts (POCs) for new tools, frameworks, and automation approaches.
• Drive and optimize CI/CD integration, enabling continuous testing and faster, reliable releases.
• Collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring alignment and delivery consistency.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of QE/testing experience.
• Proven experience leading QE efforts or managing QE teams.
• Deep expertise across multiple testing types, including functional, performance and end‑to‑end.
• Strong hands‑on automation experience with working knowledge of BDD frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, design principles and coding standards.
• Hands‑on experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across levels.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).

Preferred Experience:

These are qualifications that would be helpful for the position but are not firm requirements.

• Working knowledge of Order Management systems and trading workflows
• Experience managing or coordinating work across onshore and offshore teams
• Proficiency in Java (or any other programing language)

Employee Benefits:

GSG is excited to offer its consultants a robust option of benefits which include comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage. You will receive company‑paid life insurance. In addition, we hope you will take advantage of eligible commuter benefits‑like paying for work‑related public transit and parking with pre‑tax dollars. Save for your retirement with pre‑tax contributions that go directly into your 401K. We also care about your pets with several options for pet insurance, discount card and prescriptions.

GSG’s Commitment to Diversity:

As a diverse‑owned business, GSG is committed to creating a diverse workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.