Staff Quality Engineer

Forge Global•Denver, CO

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Forge, the team is considered its greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, Forge's vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone, living by values of being bold, accountable, and humble. The company helps teams behind major innovations, from space travel to artificial intelligence. Forge provides liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace. Its goal is to build 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 private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity, and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's global marketplace addresses rising demand for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. This has generated significant interest from investors and customers, leading to a need to expand the team. Forge’s quality engineering team aims to improve product quality by upholding high standards, obsessing over customers, and embodying the values of being bold, humble, and accountable. The company is seeking a Staff Quality Engineer with at least 8 years of experience in owning and delivering quality for large, complex financial trading systems. This role will be part of the trading team and requires a senior, technical, and customer-focused candidate who aligns with Forge's values. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings and is motivated by creating success through strong communication, shipping great product experiences, and making data-driven decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or 5 years software engineering experience)
8-12 years of software testing experience
Fintech, Trading or Financial services industry experience
Experience in leading quality efforts for internet applications
Physical requirements: operate a computer for at least 8 hours per day; give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication

Responsibilities

Build comprehensive bottoms up Test Strategies for our platform services organization
Write tests plans covering various customer use cases – functional, compliance & legal aspects
Engage is projects from the initiation phase to identify gaps in requirement and failure modes in design
Be a force multiplier to help developers shift testing left
Automate tests based on what’s most valuable and high priority and help adopt best practices to improve code quality
Collaborate with Forge’s product, design, information security and business team members to quickly grasp domain knowledge.
Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation
Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of issues, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to fix the root cause
Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to improve the impact and efficiency of testing