Quality Engineer II

Role Overview

Staff Quality Engineer owning and delivering quality for large, complex financial trading systems. This role will be part of our Platform Services team.

2-3 days a week in office in Soho, NY

• Build comprehensive, bottom-up test strategies for the Platform Services organization
• Write test plans covering various customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal aspects
• Engage in projects from the initiation phase to identify requirement gaps and design failure modes
• Act as a force multiplier to help developers shift testing left
• Automate tests based on priority and business value
• Help adopt best practices to improve code quality
• Collaborate with product, design, information security, and business teams to quickly grasp domain knowledge
• Develop concise, clear, and detailed documentation
• Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and gap analysis
• Provide technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving issues, including determining workarounds or escalating to service owners
• Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to address root causes
• Leverage AI technologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of testing

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8–12 years of software testing experience
• Experience in fintech, trading, or financial services
• Experience leading quality efforts for internet applications
• Expertise in test automation (UI, API, or other layers)
• Experience enhancing test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, etc.
• Experience in end-to-end (E2E) automation, contract testing, API automation, and load/performance testing
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience mentoring other quality engineers
• Proven track record of teamwork and delivery
• Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups
• Experience with Type Script and Node.js (strong plus)

For residents of the New York, NY area, the annual salary range for this role is $169,000 - $200,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.