The tastytrade family of companies (tastytrade, tastyworks, dough, quiet foundation, and The Small Exchange) empowers individual investors by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, innovative derivatives products, and portfolio guidance. The diversity of our offerings and the technology that powers them provides our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly available, and performant systems. Our team is lean at roughly 30 members and we follow a management philosophy that values the autonomy of our engineers.

At tastyworks you’ll be part of a team of engineers that builds out the technology that powers our retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the customer-facing applications we build. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance. You'll help by modifying existing QA systems, taking on ownership of current QA systems, creating new automated test cases, and troubleshooting issues as they arise. Our QA engineers work with a plethora of tools including C++, Java, Javascript, and Ruby. You'll work on front-end and back-end systems in an effort to expand and improve our Quality Assurance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write and execute manual and automated test cases and analyze results
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks
• Define, develop, and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, as well as test plans for both automation and manual testing
• Work directly with product managers and software engineers to understand system requirements, use cases, and performance considerations
• Participate in all aspects of a full life-cycle development methodology and related quality concepts and processes

PREREQUISITES

• Experience in enterprise application testing (test case development and execution) for an online broker dealer or financial institution
• Experience in the software development life cycle, preferably in a financial services environment
• Knowledge of commodities markets, financial trading environments, or the equity brokerage business and exposure to futures markets is preferable
• Programming experience using Javascript, Node.js, and/or Python
• Strong working knowledge of Javascript-based test automation frameworks and NPM Libraries (testCafe, Mocha, Jest, Artillery)
• Solid understanding of Docker, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Postman, and Jira
• Experience testing REST APIs
• Experience developing regression and functional test plans, managing defects, and implementing automated testing of web, mobile and back-end services
• Strong background in functional testing with the ability to design and develop comprehensive automated and manual test strategies and cases

*tastyworks is part of a broader family of companies that work to serve all of the needs of the retail trader. We aim to fill the financial vertical with: tastytrade, educational content; tastyworks, a platform and tools for trading derivatives; The Small Exchange, retail-accessible futures products; quiet foundation, a free investment advisory service; dough, a content-filled, easy-to-use stock-trading app; and luckbox, a monthly print and digital financial magazine.