Senior QA Engineer

About Us
DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe access to financial markets shouldn’t be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. Our API-based platform empowers partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, with US equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, options, and fractional shares.

Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the stability and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while holding ourselves to institutional-grade execution and compliance. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About the Role

DriveWealth is seeking a hands-on Senior QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team supporting post-trade platforms: clearing, custody, settlement, and the back-office systems that follow trade execution. This role is embedded within a product engineering team and focuses on scalable automation, high-quality releases, and stronger testing practices across the SDLC.
The ideal candidate has strong technical automation experience and prior exposure to post-trade processing, reconciliation, and margin products in a broker-dealer or clearing environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Java, Cucumber (BDD), and RestAssured

• Build and execute automated tests across API, event/messaging (Kafka, queue-based integrations), and data layers, with UI coverage where applicable

• Validate end-to-end post-trade workflows, including trade settlement, positions and cash, corporate actions, options lifecycle (exercise, assignment, expiration), margin, asset transfers (ACATS), and cost basis/tax lots

• Design and automate reconciliation tests between DriveWealth systems and clearing/custodian platforms, validating positions, balances, and transactions
  Validate downstream outputs such as trade confirmations, statements, and regulatory reports (e.g., CAT/FINRA)

• Create test plans, scenarios, and regression suites for financial systems, including migration and parallel-run validation

• Build and maintain CI/CD test pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Performance Testing experience

• Analyze test results, troubleshoot defects, and improve test coverage

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Compliance teams on testing strategy and quality improvements

• Participate in test reviews, bug triage, and production issue analysis
  
  

You Bring

• 8+ years of QA experience in financial services, with direct exposure to post-trade, clearing, or back-office platforms

• Strong hands-on programming in Java

• Automation experience with Cucumber/BDD and RestAssured

• Experience testing REST APIs and event-driven systems (Kafka; RabbitMQ or SQS a plus)

• Strong SQL (Postgres) skills for data validation and reconciliation

• Working knowledge of post-trade concepts: settlement cycles, corporate actions, margin, options lifecycle, and books-and-records requirements

• Experience with AWS, Git, and Jenkins

• Familiarity with JIRA and test management tools (Allure TestOps)
  
  

Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)

• Playwright and TypeScript for UI automation

• Experience with a clearing system conversion or platform migration

• Exposure to FIX protocol, crypto asset workflows, or data tools such as Databricks
  
  

Location

This role is open to candidates in the following locations: Hyderabad, IN

• This role is expected to come into the office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

• If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.

Working at DriveWealth

We do our best work when we're in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in office on a hybrid schedule. We've found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you're here, you're working directly with the people making the decisions.

To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Disability insurance, and Paid Parental Leave, along with a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.

Work Authorization

Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application. DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.

For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time. Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.

How We Think About AI

We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI-curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction, and improve outcomes to deliver products faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.

Compensation

Pay is generally based on the level, complexity, responsibility, location, and job duties/requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits. This role is eligible for base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and heavily subsidized benefits and perks.

Equal Employment Opportunity

To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Agency Disclaimer

DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.