QA Engineer

Your Opportunity At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).As a QA Manager, Software Development & Engineering, you will help protect the quality and reliability of applications supporting complex trading and margin-related capabilities.

You will lead test planning and execution, establish effective testing strategies, identify risks, and guide defect resolution before software is released to production.

Working closely with QA engineers, application development teams, business analysts, product owners, and external technology partners, you will apply Quality Assurance, Problem Solving, and Cross-Functional Collaboration to strengthen acceptance criteria and deliver high-quality test plans and test cases. You will use sound Decision Making to evaluate testing approaches, environments, tools, and release readiness.

This role also provides an opportunity to mentor QA engineers, improve testing standards, and recommend process or technical changes. Your leadership will promote consistent execution, stronger partnerships, and continuous improvement across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).What you have

Required Qualifications 5+ years of software testing or Quality Assurance experience, including test planning, test-case development, defect management, and release validation

Demonstrated expertise in margin concepts and their application within financial or trading systems

Understanding of the order and trade lifecycle across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange, or cryptocurrency

Understanding of option-matching strategies

Experience performing Problem Solving, root-cause analysis, and Risk Mitigation for software defects and release issues

Ability to lead manual and automated testing activities and produce high-quality testing documentation

Ability to collaborate with application development teams, business analysts, product owners, and internal or external technology partners

Strong Analytical Thinking, Decision Making, Communication, and Attention to Detail Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications 2+ years of experience managing small-to-medium-sized projects

Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring QA engineers, and coordinating work across distributed or offshore testing teams

Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), product life cycles, test environments, and system integrations

Experience with Windows, Linux, UNIX, Oracle, REST APIs, Swagger, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Jira Experience supporting release planning, implementation timelines, defect tracking, and Process Improvement Strong financial markets or operations knowledge

Ability to serve as a Subject Matter Expert and provide guidance across projects and initiatives

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

Job Summary

Requisition d Date: 16 hours ago(10/12/2026 9:42 AM)
Category:
Engineering & Software Development Salary Range: USD $ - $ / Year Application deadline: 10/19/2026

Position Type:
Full time