Senior SDET: Automated Testing for Wealth Tech

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

STATE STREET CORPORATION's Wealth Custody & Clearing team in Boston is seeking a senior SDET to design, build, and maintain automated testing frameworks across frontend, backend, and API layers. You will embed with delivery teams to ensure quality and compliance in production-critical systems.

The role emphasizes engineering-driven testing, collaboration with developers and product teams, and improving test data strategies, defect prevention, and release readiness in a regulated financial

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality engineering, SDET, or test automation roles.
• Hands-on contributor embedded within engineering teams.
• Experience designing automated testing solutions for complex systems.
• Experience in enterprise/regulatory environments where quality and controls matter.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for frontend, backend, and API systems.
• Build and run automated test suites: functional, regression, integration, end-to-end.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and platform engineers to embed quality early in SDLC.
• Validate workflows: wealth custody, clearing, trading, and servicing processes.
• Create test data strategies, identify defects, and support release readiness.

Skills

Test automation

Quality engineering

CI/CD

API testing

Java/JavaScript

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

STATE STREET CORPORATION's Wealth Custody & Clearing team in Boston is seeking a senior SDET to design, build, and maintain automated testing frameworks across frontend, backend, and API layers. You will embed with delivery teams to ensure quality and compliance in production-critical systems.

The role emphasizes engineering-driven testing, collaboration with developers and product teams, and improving test data strategies, defect prevention, and release readiness in a regulated financial