Senior QA Engineer

We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer for a contract position (6+ months) based in Helena, Montana. You will join a respected, globally-focused institutional investment management organization that invests across major asset classes including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed-income instruments. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside diverse, high-caliber colleagues in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment while contributing to important social purpose.

• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence, improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities in an Agile environment that includes business and technology partners.
• Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves rather than handing it off to QA/QE.
• Participate in product design and development to ensure quality is built in from the beginning.
• Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through analysis at various stages, ensuring stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases and scripts, identify defects, analyze test results, and partner with developers to ensure products and services meet quality standards.
• Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing.
• Adhere to Agile software development lifecycle principles and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship, promoting a culture of feedback, learning, and professional growth.
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams, and vendor partners.

• Required
  • Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing.
  • Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar).
  • Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build and release workflows.
  • Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development.
  • SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification.
• Preferred
  • Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms.
  • Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka).
  • Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems.
  • AWS cloud testing experience.
  • Performance and load testing exposure.