Senior SDET – Trade Management

ZipStaff • Westlake, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

ZipStaff is seeking a Senior SDET to architect and build a new common automation platform for a leading financial services organization in Westlake, TX. You will deliver a unified, scalable end-to-end automation engine supporting 13+ modernization teams. This is a greenfield framework role covering UI and API automation for institutional trade and order-management workflows — not a manual QA or script-maintenance role.

Requirements

• 7–8+ years of hands-on test automation / SDET experience, including framework design (not script-only backgrounds).
• Strong programming skills in Java and TypeScript.
• Advanced experience with Playwright and/or Selenium for UI automation.
• Hands-on API automation with REST and SOAP, including Cucumber / BDD.
• Experience building or modernizing a shared automation platform used by multiple teams.
• Hands-on Jenkins CI/CD experience.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot (or similar) in a daily engineering workflow.
• Ability to work on-site in Westlake, TX.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Institutional trading, OMS, order lifecycle, post-trade, clearing/settlement, or regulatory reporting experience.
• Experience validating across legacy mainframe / DB2 SOAP services and modern microservices.
• Experience with test reporting dashboards and quality metrics at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a brand-new unified Java and TypeScript automation platform from the ground up.
• Support both UI automation (Playwright / Selenium) and API testing across 13+ teams.
• Establish modern CI/CD patterns in Jenkins and use GitHub Copilot to accelerate framework construction and test authoring.
• Automate core order-lifecycle workflows: Create → Modify → Cancel → Execute.
• Validate institutional OMS order rules, post-trade processing, downstream clearing/settlement integrations, and regulatory reporting platforms.
• Design and execute API-driven automated tests (REST / SOAP) for workflows routed through Director-pattern architectures.
• Perform state comparison and data validation across coexisting legacy systems (Mainframe / DB2 via SOAP) and modern cloud / microservice platforms.
• Enhance test reporting dashboards for coverage, execution stability, and business-capability regression metrics across trading areas.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed