Senior Software Engineer in Test

Fidelity Investments•Westlake, TX

23h

About The Position

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building and testing high‑quality, scalable API and web applications. You will join the Financial Planning and Advice product area, where you will apply strong software engineering and test automation expertise to design, develop, validate, deploy, and maintain mission‑critical applications supporting Financial Planning and Advice. In this role, you will contribute hands‑on to API and UI development, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline enablement, and DevOps initiatives. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure high standards for quality, security, performance, and accessibility. You will also help drive best practices in engineering excellence, modern testing strategies, and continuous delivery. Senior Software Engineers at Fidelity Investments demonstrate technical depth, leadership, ownership, and the ability to collaborate across teams while continuously learning and adopting new technologies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
6–9 years of experience in software engineering with a strong emphasis on API and web application development and test automation
Strong experience designing, developing, and testing RESTful APIs and modern web applications
Deep expertise in automated testing frameworks for API and UI validation, including: Cypress, Playwright Rest Assured JUnit, TestNG, Maven
Hands‑on experience with DevOps tools and pipelines (Jenkins Core, GitHub Actions, monorepos, etc.)
Experience supporting build, test, and deployment automation
Proficiency with source control and branching strategies (GitHub, Bitbucket/Stash, Sourcetree)
Strong understanding of accessibility standards and experience building and testing accessible web applications
Focus on deployment automation, orchestration, and release health
Experience managing code branches, merges, versioning, and pipeline troubleshooting
Ability to use testing and testability principles to influence better software design, security, and defect prevention
Experience building automated coverage across unit, component, integration, functional, and performance testing layers
Exposure to emerging technologies and AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
Strong problem‑solving skills with an ownership mindset and ability to work independently under general direction
Proven collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

Financial services domain knowledge would be a plus
Cloud experience preferred, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with Chaos testing
Experience with Splunk, Datadog
Experience with Xray
Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI
Experience with Insomnia/Bruno
Experience with Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, Java
Experience with Jira

Responsibilities

Contribute hands‑on to API and UI development, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline enablement, and DevOps initiatives.
Partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure high standards for quality, security, performance, and accessibility.
Help drive best practices in engineering excellence, modern testing strategies, and continuous delivery.
Demonstrate technical depth, leadership, ownership, and the ability to collaborate across teams while continuously learning and adopting new technologies.
Design, develop, validate, deploy, and maintain mission‑critical applications supporting Financial Planning and Advice.
Build scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
Support build, test, and deployment automation.
Manage code branches, merges, versioning, and pipeline troubleshooting.
Use testing and testability principles to influence better software design, security, and defect prevention.
Build automated coverage across unit, component, integration, functional, and performance testing layers.
Collaborate to improve test coverage, release velocity, and production stability.
Deliver high‑quality, end‑to‑end customer experiences.