Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Harvey Nash; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated testing frameworks for their investment platform. You will work closely with product managers and engineers to enhance quality standards and ensure rapid delivery of features. The ideal candidate has 2–4 years of experience in QA automation, proficiency in TypeScript, and a solid understanding of automated testing principles. Familiarity with agile methodologies and experience in fintech testing are preferred.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience in QA automation or software engineering.
• Experience building test automation in fintech or investment tech.
• Proficiency in a programming language for test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites.
• Collaborate to review requirements and define test coverage.
• Continuously improve test reliability and performance.

Skills

Test automation

Debugging skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

RESTful APIs testing

Agile methodologies

Tools

TypeScript

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will partner closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define quality standards, design test strategies, and build automation that supports rapid, confident delivery of customer-facing features. You’ll work within a squad to enhance our investment platform, improve reliability, and ship customer-facing value regularly.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for APIs and end-to-end workflows supporting account opening, funding, and alternative asset transactions.
• Collaborate early in the development lifecycle to review requirements, identify risks, and define acceptance criteria and test coverage.
• Own test automation for small to medium-sized projects, with support and review from senior automation engineers.
• Continuously improve test reliability, performance, and maintainability, reducing flakiness and increasing signal.
• Partner with software engineers during code reviews to advocate for testability, quality best practices, and appropriate coverage.
• Investigate test failures, debug complex issues across services, and assist with root cause analysis.
• Support production issues by validating fixes, contributing to postmortems, and helping prevent regressions.

Qualifications

• Typically 2–4 years of professional experience in QA automation, software testing, or software engineering with a strong testing focus.
• Required: Professional experience building test automation and validating production software in fintech and/or investment technology (e.g., account opening/KYC, funding/money movement, transactions, reconciliation, reporting, and compliance-driven workflows).
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language used for test automation (TypeScript preferred), with the ability to learn new tools and languages as needed.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and backend services, including integration and regression testing.
• Solid debugging and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of automated testing concepts, test design, and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience working in an agile environment (scrum, kanban, or similar).

Bonus / Nice-to-Have

• Experience specifically with retirement/investing workflows (account opening/KYC, funding, transactions, reconciliation, reporting) and/or alternative assets platforms.
• Experience with Cypress, Playwright, or similar end-to-end frameworks.
• Familiarity with test data management and environment strategy.