Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About Us DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options. There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. 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) Speci