Lead SDET Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Depending on relevant experience

Come join oneZero Financial Systems! An exciting, fast-growing company with Headquarters in Somerville MA, oneZero empowers banks, brokerages and hedge funds with cutting edge trade routing and execution technology. Our platform, deployed with 200+ entities globally, features a low-latency trading environment, integrations to the worlds leading execution venues, and reliable IT infrastructure and technical supportall designed to be customized and scaled to serve any business model and any size of market participant. We take pride in our great work atmosphere and highly motivated team of engineers. We are currently looking for a motivated and talented Lead SDET Quality Assurance Engineer to join our HQ office.

oneZero is proud to have been named one of Business Intelligence Group's Best Places to Work for four consecutive years :

https : / / www.onezero.com / awards / onezero -earns-recognition-as-a-2025-best-place-to-work /

The Boston Globe names oneZero a Top Place to Work in 2022, 2023, and 2024 : https : / / www.onezero.com / homepage / the -boston-globe-names-onezero-a-top-place-to-work-for-third-year-in-a-row /

oneZero earns 2024 Great Place To Work Australia Certification

https : / / www.onezero.com / awards / onezero -2024-great-place-to-work-australia-certification /

Please see oneZero featured in e-Forex Magazine to learn more about the company and our dynamic team (https : / / goo.gl / vbXw8i).

JOB PURPOSE :

At oneZero, we develop a high performance ultra-low latency trading and finance platform that sends terabytes of data to our AWS platform on our data analytics platform. We also develop and integrate into our Autochartist analytic platform into our main platforms. We are looking for a computer science graduate or trained software engineer who is looking to work with a world-class software team. In this role, you will grow your career through teamwork, becoming an expert in trading / finance / data analysis via testing and developing code to ensure we deliver high quality software and validate our large data sets.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY :

Manages and supervises other SDET QA to ensure application code the team tests performs as expected in terms of function, compatibility, design, and performance chiefly by developing testing programs to identify possible defects in pre-deployment software. Operates at all levels of the testing pyramid, employing knowledge of the end user business domain to mentor the team to validate suitability for purpose. Collaborates with team, engineering and product colleagues to ensure consistently high quality software. Oversee and help implement full automation test coverage at a squad level for a release and coordinate the work within the squad / team to completion. Participates in automation code reviews, pair-programming, makes automation framework updates to support new / enhanced functionality, Able to understand automation coding and best practices and mentor other SDET QA to get the team to develop test automation to the same standards that the development team follows. Keep up with innovations in the industry and be a driver of continuous improvement.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Quality and Best Practices Champion

• Promotes automation first approach to test plans that incorporate both positive and negative scenarios
• Identifies functional interdependencies between squads that optimizes testing of related / dependent features that are cross-squad and cross-team
• Participates and leads in postmortem activities to better understand and automate escapes and implement process improvements
• Understands each tier of the testing pyramid and the how to use the different automation solutions for them
• Helps ensure both stories and epics meet both Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)
• Applies test-first BDD and TDD best practices

Innovator

Automated Test Developer

Agile Practitioner

Business Domain Expert

Test Framework Developer

Tier 3 Support Troubleshooter

EXPERIENCE / EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

KEY COMPETENCIES

The salary range for this role is 115,000- 145,000, depending on relevant experience.