3 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$155k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive automation across API, UI, and end-to-end testing while prioritizing coverage value against execution time and maintenance cost.
- Extend AI-assisted test-generation tooling and curate, validate, and maintain generated test coverage.
- Build and maintain scalable test frameworks and CI/CD infrastructure for order lifecycles, WebSocket market-data streams, and financial calculations.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to define testability requirements and quality standards early in development.
- Maintain clean, production-quality test code and serve as a quality example for the team.
- Triage test failures, reduce flakiness, and make test results and quality metrics visible and trustworthy.
- Identify and drive resolution of quality gaps, systemic testing weaknesses, and test-related technical debt.
- Mentor engineers and SDETs on automation, AI-assisted testing, performance, load, resilience, and quality practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software testing experience focused on test automation and framework development.
- Expert programming skills and the ability to write production-quality test code in TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building test automation frameworks from scratch; Playwright is preferred, with Cypress, Selenium, or similar experience also relevant.
- Experience using AI/LLM-assisted tooling for test creation and verification, including validating and curating generated output.
- Strong API and real-time testing experience involving backend services and streaming systems.
- Familiarity with React/TypeScript front ends, C#/.NET backend services, databases, and service architecture sufficient to test systems deeply.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Ability to design test strategies balancing coverage, execution time, and maintenance overhead.
- Strong debugging skills across frontend, backend, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to advocate for quality and influence engineering practices.
- Preferred: experience with performance, load, resilience, contract or consumer-driven, and observability-driven testing.
- Preferred: familiarity with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: experience testing trading, fintech, low-latency, or financially sensitive systems.
Benefits
- Fully remote to hybrid work arrangements are available.
- Seven company-paid holidays, generous family leave, and front-loaded paid time off.
- 401(k) matching plus health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees.
- Bonus for taking five consecutive vacation days, a food and groceries budget, and health and wellness contributions.
- Performance-based bonus eligibility.
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About Topstep
Topstep runs a simulated evaluation and funding program for retail futures traders, offering the chance to trade live markets with the firm’s capital after passing risk-focused tests. It also builds tools and education, including the TopstepX trading platform and a custom real-time charting engine. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, the privately held company monetizes access to evaluations and trader services.