Sr. QA Automation Engineer New York, New York, United States

Verition Fund Management LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to enhance their technology team's capabilities. This role involves designing and maintaining automated testing frameworks for critical trading systems, focusing on quality assurance in a fast-paced hedge fund environment. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive QA experience and passion for mentoring to drive improvements in testing methodologies. Join a collaborative team dedicated to delivering high-performance solutions while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. If you're ready to make a significant impact in the financial services sector, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA experience with 3+ years in test automation.
• Strong understanding of financial systems and QA methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test plans for various testing types.
• Build automated test suites for trading platforms and tools.
• Promote quality culture and mentor team members.

Skills

QA Automation

Manual Testing

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Engineering or Related Field

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

ReadyAPI

Postman

RestAssured

AWS

Azure

Docker

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our technology team, delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions for a fast-paced hedge fund environment. This pivotal role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability and accuracy of critical trading systems, risk management tools, and data pipelines. Reporting to the Head of QA, you will enhance quality assurance practices, collaborating closely with development teams, stakeholders, and end-users across front, middle, and back-office functions to embed quality into every stage of development. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in manual and automated testing, a strong understanding of financial systems, and a proactive passion for mentoring others, driving the evolution of QA methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and procedures for ad hoc, functional, GUI, integration, regression, data validation, user interface, and system integration testing.
• Build and manage automated test suites for trading platforms, portfolio management tools, and financial data workflows, ensuring robust functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Validate new and existing features, identifying defects and ensuring seamless integration across front, middle, and back-office systems in a hedge fund environment.
• Challenge existing processes and practices, driving the evolution of QA methodologies to align with rapid development cycles and enhance efficiency.
• Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement, mentoring team members and elevating testing standards across the team.
• Identify opportunities to streamline testing efforts, optimize automation, and accelerate delivery timelines continuously.
• Utilize strong interpersonal and organizational skills to manage multiple testing priorities and projects effectively, ensuring timely delivery in a dynamic environment.
• Perform comprehensive testing of microservices-based architectures and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, Solace) to support scalable, real-time financial applications.
• Conduct manual testing as needed to supplement automation and ensure comprehensive validation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, any Engineering discipline, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of QA experience, with at least 3 years focused on test automation, ideally in asset management, hedge funds, financial services, or fintech environments.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or TypeScript for test script development.
• Expertise with automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress, and API testing frameworks (e.g., ReadyAPI, Postman, RestAssured).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), containerization (e.g., Docker), SQL for data validation, and messaging systems like Kafka or Solace.
• Strong experience designing and executing automated testing frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), and utilizing version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience testing microservices-based architectures and supporting real-time, distributed systems in a financial context.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, mentoring, and organizational skills, with a detail-oriented mindset and the ability to excel in a fast-paced, agile environment with minimal supervision.

Salary Range:

$150,000 - $200,000 USD