The Role
Forge Quality Engineering team's charter is to improve product quality. We thrive on maintaining high standards, obsessing over our customers, and living our values of being bold, humble, and accountable.
We are seeking a Staff Quality Engineer owning and delivering quality for large, complex financial trading systems. This role will be part of our Platform Services team.
Location: This position is remote in Denver, CO. We intend to open an office in Denver and once we do, we will require hybrid attendance onsite at least 9 days each month.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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 TypeScript and Node.js (strong plus)
For residents of the Denver, CO the annual salary range for this role is $155,000 - $175,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors