Staff Quality Engineer II
About The Position
At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more. With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way. The Role Forge Quality Engineering team’s charter is to improve product quality. We thrive on maintaining high standards, obsessing over our customers, and living our values of being bold, humble, and accountable. We are seeking a Staff Quality Engineer owning and delivering quality for large, complex financial trading systems. This role will be part of our Platform Services team. Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8–12 years of software testing experience
- Experience in fintech, trading, or financial services
- Experience leading quality efforts for internet applications
- Expertise in test automation (UI, API, or other layers)
- Experience enhancing test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, etc.
- Experience in end-to-end (E2E) automation, contract testing, API automation, and load/performance testing
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience mentoring other quality engineers
- Proven track record of teamwork and delivery
Nice To Haves
- Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups
- Experience with TypeScript and Node.js (strong plus)
Responsibilities
- Build comprehensive, bottom-up test strategies for the Platform Services organization
- Write test plans covering various customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal aspects
- Engage in projects from the initiation phase to identify requirement gaps and design failure modes
- Act as a force multiplier to help developers shift testing left
- Automate tests based on priority and business value
- Help adopt best practices to improve code quality
- Collaborate with product, design, information security, and business teams to quickly grasp domain knowledge
- Develop concise, clear, and detailed documentation
- Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and gap analysis
- Provide technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving issues, including determining workarounds or escalating to service owners
- Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to address root causes
- Leverage AI technologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of testing
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
