Quality Assurance Engineer

PTR Global; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PTR Global seeks a QA/test engineer with 3+ years of experience in backend financial systems. You will design and execute end-to-end tests, validate complex computations with SQL, and ensure audit-ready evidence for SOX controls.

You’ll collaborate across engineering, business, and control stakeholders to build robust, compliant test coverage. You will create automated test suites, integrate tests into CI/CD, and validate REST APIs, data integrity, and event-driven workflows, delivering clear

Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA/test engineering in backend financial or regulated systems.
• Proficiency in Python and pytest for test automation.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills for data validation and reconciliation.
• SOX/internal-controls testing experience with audit-ready evidence.
• Experience testing REST APIs with Postman/REST-assured or similar.
• Critical thinking and attention to detail; clear, audit-ready docs.
• Effective communicator across engineering, business, and audit.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Validate financial computations and reconcile data across layers with SQL.
• Translate requirements into executable test cases with developers and controls.
• Test maker-checker workflows and role-based access controls, including negatives.
• Test event-driven workflows and ensure message delivery and idempotency.
• Verify audit events for every state change with accurate timestamps.
• Test inbound/outbound data with systems of record for schema correctness.
• Produce audit-ready artifacts and evidence packages for external auditors.
• Track defects through lifecycle with traceability and closure.
• Maintain automated test suites and integrate into CI/CD per release.
• Generate test data and review logs across app, integration, and data layers.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and production support as needed.
• Help establish QA processes, standards, and best practices.

Skills

Python

pytest

Test automation

CI/CD

Playwright

SQL

SOX testing

REST API testing

Critical thinking

Communication

Tools

Postman

REST-assured

Playwright

Job description

3 plus years of QA/test engineering experience supporting backend financial, fintech, or regulated systems.

• Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience using pytest for test automation
• Strong test automation skills with experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright a plus).
• Strong SQL skills for non-trivial data validation, reconciliation, and control testing
• SOX or internal-controls testing experience, including segregation-of-duties, maker-checker workflows, and audit-reviewed evidence.
• Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, REST-assured, or similar).
• Critical thinking and attention to detail, able to identify ambiguity, validate assumptions, and produce clear, complete, audit-ready documentation.
• Effective communicator who moves fluidly between engineering, business/control stakeholders, and audit-facing discussions.

Added bonus if candidates have (Preferred):

Experience with Java services and testing within Java-based microservice environments.

• Experience testing financial data for correctness, including calculations, reconciliations, balances, or valuation-related outputs.
• Experience validating immutable or append-only audit data
• Experience with FastAPI backends and PostgreSQL systems of record
• Experience working in financial services, fintech, accounting-adjacent systems, or other highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of cloud services and deployment patterns in AWS
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices.

Client is looking for:

Client is looking for someone who can work effectively across engineering leadership, business and financial stakeholders, technology subject-matter experts, and controls-focused teams.

• This person should be comfortable partnering with developers building the system, accounting and SOX stakeholders defining control requirements, and other teams involved in integrations, releases, and audit readiness.
• The ideal candidate brings strong experience testing end-to-end financial system services, including REST APIs, event-driven workflows, external integrations, and data integrations.
• They should be able to design tests that validate non-functional requirements as part of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• They should demonstrate critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to translate business, control, technical, and non-functional requirements into clear, executable test cases.
• They should be documentation-minded, able to produce evidence that stands up to external audit, and comfortable moving between engineering conversations and SOX/internal-controls discussions.
• This role requires someone who can communicate clearly, ask thoughtful questions, identify gaps or ambiguity, and help ensure the software solution is correct, controlled, traceable, and audit ready.

Candidates Will be doing:

Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans across multi-step financial workflows and state transitions.

• Validate complex financial computations, reconcile data across transactional and analytical layers, and write SQL queries against the system of record to verify correctness and consistency.
• Translate SOX, internal-control, business, and technical requirements into executable test cases in partnership with developers, accounting, and control stakeholders.
• Test maker-checker workflows, role-based access boundaries, and segregation-of-duties controls, including negative cases, via API testing.
• Test event-driven workflows across services, validating message delivery, processing order, idempotency, and failure handling
• Validate that audit events are generated for every controlled state change (UI, batch, API), captured with accurate content and timestamps in an append-only, immutable evidence store.
• Test inbound data from third-party valuation/pricing systems and outbound payloads to systems of record for schema correctness, completeness, failure handling, and reconciliation.
• Produce audit-ready artifacts, including test plans, results narratives, and evidence packages, that stand alone during external-auditor fieldwork without additional explanation.
• Track defects through their full lifecycle, from identification through resolution, ensuring traceability and closure.
• Design and maintain automated test suites, integrating repeatable test scenarios into CI/CD pipelines to validate functional and non-functional requirements on every release.
• Generate and manage test data
• Review logs, query data, and troubleshoot issues across application, integration, and data layers.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, release readiness reviews, and production support triage as needed.
• Help establish and improve QA processes, standards, and best practices.