QA & Testing (2)

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 Soho, NY

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

Qualifications

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.

Qualifications

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
Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups
Experience with TypeScript and Node.js (strong plus)

For residents of the New York, NY area, the annual salary range for this role is $169,000 - $200,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Staff Quality Engineer 2

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