Senior QA Engineer (Mobile & Web)
As a Senior QA Engineer (Mobile & Web), 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.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with Product Managers, Developers, and our Manual Testing team
- Strategize, plan, document, and deliver automated test cases from feature stories and existing manual regression tests
- Advocate for quality in all aspects of our products
- Review and coach more junior members on best practices
- Collaborate with other automation engineers across the tastytrade family of products to cross-train and create a uniform look and feel to our testing infrastructure
- Write tickets for failed test cases
Who You Are:
- Experience using Android Studio & Xcode environments
- Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, XCUI
- Test and EspressoExperience with Web Services / API testing (Postman, SoapUI, or similar)
- Experienced in building & maintaining test pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCi, or equivalent)
- Experience with Java, Javascript, or Swift
- Experience using GitBachelor's degree in relevant fields (computer science or finance) and 5+ years QA automation experience or equivalent industry experience
- Preferred direct QA experience in either finance, equities, futures, and cryptocurrency
Team Perks:
- Sustainable workday
- Daily catered lunch when in the office
- Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
- Dog-friendly office
- In-building gym
- Park-like roof with games and herb-garden
- CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
- Monthly dev outings (e.g. escape rooms, movie nights, ax-throwing, laser tag, bowling, etc.)
- Located in the West Loop--Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars
About Us:
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 provide 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 40 members and we follow a management philosophy that values the autonomy of our engineers.