Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our technology team, delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions for a fast-paced hedge fund environment. This pivotal role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability and accuracy of critical trading systems, risk management tools, and data pipelines. Reporting to the Head of QA, you will enhance quality assurance practices, collaborating closely with development teams, stakeholders, and end-users across front, middle, and back-office functions to embed quality into every stage of development. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in manual and automated testing, a strong understanding of financial systems, and a proactive passion for mentoring others, driving the evolution of QA methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and procedures for ad hoc, functional, GUI, integration, regression, data validation, user interface, and system integration testing.
• Build and manage automated test suites for trading platforms, portfolio management tools, and financial data workflows, ensuring robust functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Validate new and existing features, identifying defects and ensuring seamless integration across front, middle, and back-office systems in a hedge fund environment.
• Challenge existing processes and practices, driving the evolution of QA methodologies to align with rapid development cycles and enhance efficiency.
• Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement, mentoring team members and elevating testing standards across the team.
• Identify opportunities to streamline testing efforts, optimize automation, and accelerate delivery timelines continuously.
• Utilize strong interpersonal and organizational skills to manage multiple testing priorities and projects effectively, ensuring timely delivery in a dynamic environment.
• Perform comprehensive testing of microservices-based architectures and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, Solace) to support scalable, real-time financial applications.
• Conduct manual testing as needed to supplement automation and ensure comprehensive validation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, any Engineering discipline, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of QA experience, with at least 3 years focused on test automation, ideally in asset management, hedge funds, financial services, or fintech environments.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or TypeScript for test script development.
• Expertise with automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress, and API testing frameworks (e.g., ReadyAPI, Postman, RestAssured).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), containerization (e.g., Docker), SQL for data validation, and messaging systems like Kafka or Solace.
• Strong experience designing and executing automated testing frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), and utilizing version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience testing microservices-based architectures and supporting real-time, distributed systems in a financial context.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, mentoring, and organizational skills, with a detail-oriented mindset and the ability to excel in a fast-paced, agile environment with minimal supervision.