Lead SDET Quality Assurance Engineer

oneZero Financial Systems•Somerville, MA

83d•Onsite

About The Position

Come join oneZero Financial Systems! An exciting, fast-growing company with Headquarters in Somerville MA, oneZero empowers banks, brokerages and hedge funds with cutting edge trade routing and execution technology. Our platform, deployed with 200+ entities globally, features a low-latency trading environment, integrations to the worldâs leading execution venues, and reliable IT infrastructure and technical supportâall designed to be customized and scaled to serve any business model and any size of market participant. We take pride in our great work atmosphere and highly motivated team of engineers. We are currently looking for a motivated and talented Lead SDET Quality Assurance Engineer to join our HQ office. oneZero is proud to have been named one of Business Intelligence Group's Best Places to Work for four consecutive years: https://www.onezero.com/awards/onezero-earns-recognition-as-a-2025-best-place-to-work/ The Boston Globe names oneZero a Top Place to Work in 2022, 2023, and 2024: https://www.onezero.com/homepage/the-boston-globe-names-onezero-a-top-place-to-work-for-third-year-in-a-row/ oneZero earns 2024 Great Place To Work Australia Certification https://www.onezero.com/awards/onezero-2024-great-place-to-work-australia-certification/ Please see oneZero featured in e-Forex Magazine to learn more about the company and our dynamic team (https://goo.gl/vbXw8i). JOB PURPOSE: At oneZero, we develop a high performance ultra-low latency trading and finance platform that sends terabytes of data to our AWS platform on our data analytics platform. We also develop and integrate into our Autochartist analytic platform into our main platforms. We are looking for a computer science graduate or trained software engineer who is looking to work with a world-class software team. In this role, you will grow your career through teamwork, becoming an expert in trading/finance/data analysis via testing and developing code to ensure we deliver high quality software and validate our large data sets. JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY: Manages and supervises other SDET QA to ensure application code the team tests performs as expected in terms of function, compatibility, design, and performance chiefly by developing testing programs to identify possible defects in pre-deployment software. Operates at all levels of the testing pyramid, employing knowledge of the end user business domain to mentor the team to validate suitability for purpose. Collaborates with team, engineering and product colleagues to ensure consistently high quality software. Oversee and help implement full automation test coverage at a squad level for a release and coordinate the work within the squad/team to completion. Participates in automation code reviews, pair-programming, makes automation framework updates to support new/enhanced functionality, Able to understand automation coding and best practices and mentor other SDET QA to get the team to develop test automation to the same standards that the development team follows. Keep up with innovations in the industry and be a driver of continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelorâs/Masterâs degree in the Hard Sciences (Computer Science, Math, Engineering preferred)
10+ years of software development or automation development or technical team leadership experience
Demonstrable experience with some of CI/CD, BDD/TDD, C#, Relational Databases and Python/JavaScript
Experience with performance tools like Neoload/JMeter/Etc
Familiarity with Playwright
Experience managing technical automation QA teams in an agile and CI/CD environment
Finance industry experience
Experience using generative AI within a development environment

Responsibilities

Quality and Best Practices Champion
Promotes automation first approach to test plans that incorporate both positive and negative scenarios
Identifies functional interdependencies between squads that optimizes testing of related/dependent features that are cross-squad and cross-team
Participates and leads in postmortem activities to better understand and automate escapes and implement process improvements
Understands each tier of the testing pyramid and the how to use the different automation solutions for them
Helps ensure both stories and epics meet both Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)
Applies test-first BDD and TDD best practices
Innovator
Experience with integrating AI into test automation solution
A vision for how Generative AI can transform QA
Ideas for client-centric testing that includes persona and workflow based test strategy
Automated Test Developer
Has a vision for how to make Leverages AI to enhance automation and productivity while ensuring high quality coding standards
Designsefactors automation to validate the intended functionality using common classes and shared configs that keeps the framework lean and fast
Able to automate and do code reviews at all levels of the test pyramid
Ensures automated tests are incorporated into CI/CD pipeline and ensure test results are monitored
Be a hands on lead and automate and validate end to end system/functional workflows within multiple components
Agile Practitioner
Demonstrates understanding of Agile principles and supports the overall delivery for product releases
Able to accurately estimate stories and oneâs own capacity
Processes retrospectives and applies Kaizen principles to daily work
Business Domain Expert
Has business domain experience and extends business domain through purposeful study
Has client centered approach and promotes customer personas and application workflows as a testing practice
Able to identify domain knowledge gaps within the team and recommend individualized training options
Demonstrates analytical, systems and innovative thinking
Acquires subject matter expertise in application under test to a level of demoing and training others
Test Framework Developer
Learns the appropriate uses of, architecture for, and construction of test frameworks and tooling
Suggests and implements improvements to the test framework
Work with multiple frameworks; REST/API, GUI, performance, ETL/big data as well as custom test solutions
Incorporates AI and new technologies into our framework that boost both productivity and product quality
Tier 3 Support Troubleshooter
Understands the production support model
Understands how production environments are deployed and configured
Prioritizes production issue troubleshooting and delegates to the team.