Test Engineer Chicago or Remote

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As a Staff Test Engineer at Ninja Trader, you will be a technical leader and quality evangelist driving testing strategy across complex, scalable systems and multiple engineering squads. You’ll guide automation architecture, establish quality standards, and collaborate across engineering, product, and operations to ensure releases meet the highest standards of reliability and performance. This role requires a deep understanding of both functional and non‑functional testing, automation frameworks, and system‑level quality assurance strategies.

• Define andmaintainend-to-end test strategies across client and server platforms, serving as the subject matter expert for quality across multiple products and teams.
• Design and guide implementation of automation frameworks and test architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability across teams.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure automation-friendly application design.
• Establish performance and non-functional testing benchmarks, driving continuous measurement and improvement across releases.
• Drive the evaluation and adoption of innovative QA tools and technologies.
• Define and track quality gates, coverage metrics, and QA KPIs, ensuring they are actionable and drive measurable improvements in release quality and stability.
• Mentor QA and SDET team members on best practices, including SOLID, DRY, and KISS principles.
• Participate in defining onboarding plans and training strategies for QA new hiresand contractors.
• Create, review, and execute end-to-end system integration and performance tests.
• Conduct root cause and gap analysis for issues across environments and systems.
• Drive enhancements to CI/CD pipelines and ensureautomationsuite scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Provide expert-level input on API testing, database validation, and test data design.
• Support cross-team initiatives andmaintainalignment with organizational quality objectives.
• Partner with engineering and Dev Ops to define observability and reliability testing strategies thatvalidatesystem resilience, fault tolerance, and recovery under production-like conditions.

• 9+ years of relevant experience in QA or software testing roles.
• Provenexpertisein both…