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Senior QA Automation Test Engineer

Chicago, IL, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-29 → 2026-09-30

Core

Architecting test frameworks and defining quality strategy for a regulated clearinghouse platform handling event contracts and prediction markets.

Role type

Senior IC QA Automation Test Engineer (Test Strategy & Framework Architecture)

Builds

Automated test frameworks (UI, API, integration), test data environments, and delivery pipelines for clearing workflows.

Domain

Financial infrastructure / Clearing & Trading / DeFi rails

Required skills

Java (architecture & framework building), Cucumber, Selenium/Playwright, RestAssured/Postman, SQL, Object-Oriented & Functional Programming, Test Strategy Design, Mentorship, CI/CD Integration

Preferred skills

AI-powered testing tools, FIX protocol, Kafka, Financial systems domain knowledge, Team management

Technologies

Java, Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, Postman, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS

Responsibilities

Set quality standards and review practices across teams; Design and build automated test frameworks across UI, API, and integration layers; Define release confidence metrics and coverage expectations; Mentor engineers and raise practice standards; Validate end-to-end clearing workflows (trade processing, margin, settlement); Embed automated testing into delivery pipelines; Manage test data and environment strategy for reproducibility.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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