QA Engineer
Charles Schwab3 days ago
Base Salary
$130k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead test planning, execution, and release validation for trading and margin-related applications.
- Develop test strategies, test plans, test cases, and testing documentation for manual and automated testing activities.
- Identify risks, manage defects, perform root-cause analysis, and guide resolution of release issues.
- Evaluate testing approaches, environments, tools, and release readiness.
- Collaborate with QA engineers, application developers, business analysts, product owners, and internal or external technology partners.
- Mentor QA engineers and recommend process, technical, and testing-standard improvements.
- Support release planning, implementation timelines, defect tracking, and cross-functional quality initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software testing or Quality Assurance experience, including test planning, test-case development, defect management, and release validation.
- Expertise in margin concepts and their application within financial or trading systems.
- Understanding of order and trade lifecycles across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange, or cryptocurrency.
- Understanding of option-matching strategies.
- Experience with problem solving, root-cause analysis, and risk mitigation for software defects and release issues.
- Ability to lead manual and automated testing and produce high-quality testing documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- Preferred experience includes managing small-to-medium-sized projects, mentoring QA engineers, coordinating distributed or offshore testing teams, and supporting release planning.
- Preferred knowledge includes software development and product lifecycles, test environments, system integrations, financial markets or operations, and the listed technologies.
Benefits
- The role is expected to work on site in the specified location.
- The position is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.