Marketaxess-posted 3 months ago
$135,000 - $170,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
New York, NY
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior QA Automation Engineer to play a strong leadership role, owning automated testing across our Trading platform and helping to set the QA vision for future releases. You will architect, design, build, and run comprehensive test suites, integrate them into our CI/CD toolchain, and drive quality from planning through release in a fast-paced Agile team. This position requires automation and manual testing (where features are not yet covered by automation). We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving to encourage all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning.

  • Define and drive test strategy (functional, security, integration, regression, performance, smoke).
  • Own QA roadmap and communicate progress.
  • Mentor QA engineers and champion quality-first culture.
  • Supervise quality gates.
  • Monitor static code analysis, vulnerability scans, and performance metrics to ensure optimal system functionality.
  • Manage a co-located work team, in multiple time zones.
  • Establish and track quality KPIs, and champion process improvements to drive continuous improvement.
  • Manage test data and environments and set development standards for testability.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive automation.
  • Integrate with CI/CD toolchain and partner with SRE team to embed tests in GitHub Actions / Jenkins for quick and reliable releases.
  • Develop test plans, create test cases, and write test automation code.
  • Plan and implement various types of testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, performance).
  • Collaborate with business partners, developers, and stakeholders to plan, create, execute, and automate test cases.
  • Review developer and QA test plans to ensure comprehensive coverage.
  • Log, track, and verify fixes in Jira.
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback.
  • Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues with different teams to drive root cause identification and resolution.
  • Lead the testing efforts of medium to large-sized projects, assign tasks to personnel, and report progress to stakeholders.
  • Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the test suite and explore innovative automation techniques.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort through automation.
  • Track key testing metrics and communicate progress towards overall testing goals to stakeholders.
  • 7+ years in software QA, with 3+ years focused on Playwright/TypeScript automation.
  • Strong coding proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with practical experience testing modern web applications.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and API testing frameworks (Playwright API).
  • Exposure to performance testing tools and methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of Static and security testing tools (e.g., SonarQube, Checkmark).
  • Skilled in test data management, environment setup, and debugging distributed systems.
  • Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, TestNG, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
  • E-trading and financial services industry experience.
  • Strong presentation skills: written and verbal communication, including the ability to influence.
  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
  • Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home.
  • Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office.
  • Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days.
  • Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave.
  • 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount.
  • Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more.
  • Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location.
  • Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers.
  • Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.
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