Staff Quality Engineer

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Overview

LABUR is supporting a client in strengthening the quality, reliability, and customer experience of a large-scale financial trading platform. As part of this engagement, LABUR is delivering senior-level quality engineering expertise through a Staff Quality Engineer who will help establish scalable quality practices, drive data-informed decisions, and partner closely with cross-functional teams. This initiative is focused on ensuring resilient, high-performing systems and consistently exceptional product outcomes across complex, mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Build comprehensive, bottoms-up test strategies for platform services.
• Write detailed test plans covering a wide range of customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal considerations.
• Engage in projects from initiation to identify gaps in requirements and potential failure modes in design.
• Act as a force multiplier by helping development teams shift testing left.
• Design and automate tests based on business value and risk, while promoting best practices that improve overall code quality.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, information security, and business stakeholders to rapidly develop deep domain knowledge.
• Develop clear, concise, and thorough technical documentation.
• Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application development, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
• Provide technical ownership in diagnosing and resolving issues, including identifying workarounds or escalating to appropriate service owners.
• Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to address root causes.
• Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing efforts.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience, such as 5 years of software engineering).
• 8–12 years of software testing or quality engineering experience.
• Experience in fintech, trading platforms, or financial services.
• Proven experience leading quality efforts for large-scale, internet-based applications.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
  
  

Compensation

$155,000 - $165,000 per year - Dependent on fit and experience.