Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job title: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: New York, New York (On-site)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to establish and execute the quality engineering strategy for a cutting-edge Digital Asset Platform. The successful candidate will lead quality initiatives for business use cases, including central counterparty margin processing and intraday repo settlement workflows. This position requires a combination of hands-on QA automation expertise and capital markets domain knowledge, specifically concerning collateral management, margin transactions, and secured funding liquidity. Collaboration with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Risk, and Delivery teams is essential to ensure platform capabilities meet performance, resiliency, security, and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, design, and maintain enterprise-grade automated testing frameworks for the Digital Asset Platform.

• Execute comprehensive API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across distributed systems and microservices.

• Integrate automated tests seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery.

• Validate complex event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, and system integrations.

• Oversee test data management, reconciliation, traceability, and defect-management practices.

• Translate complex financial workflows and business requirements into effective positive, negative, boundary, exception, and recovery test scenarios.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, and Risk teams, to align QA strategy with business goals.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.

• Experience: Significant professional experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software test engineering within the financial services sector is mandatory. Proven experience in capital markets, collateral management, or transaction lifecycle validation is required.

• Technical

Skills

• Proven expertise in designing automated testing frameworks, API testing, messaging integrations, CI/CD pipeline integration, and robust test data management methodologies is required.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing digital asset, tokenization, distributed-ledger, or digital custody platforms.

• Familiarity with smart contracts, programmable settlement, or ledger-based asset movement.

• Experience working with central counterparties, clearing brokers, custodians, or financial market infrastructures.

• Prior experience automating test-case design or execution using AI, Large Language Models, Generative AI, or machine learning models.

• Experience generating synthetic financial transaction data using AI-assisted techniques.

• Familiarity with security, resiliency, auditability, and regulatory control requirements for financial platforms.

• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards.

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Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a Health Savings Account, an Employee Assistance Program with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.