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About the Role

Forge's quality engineering team is seeking a Sr Software Development Engineer in Test to improve product quality for financial trading systems. This role will focus on platform and reliability engineering, owning Forge’s infrastructure, developer experience, and deployment engineering. The ideal candidate is technical, customer-focused, embodies Forge values, and thrives in team settings.

Responsibilities

• Build comprehensive bottoms-up Test Strategies for infrastructure changes and releases.
• Build test automation frameworks, tools, and solutions to make testing faster, efficient, and stable.
• Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to augment testing activities.
• Write test plans covering various customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal aspects.
• Engage in projects from the initiation phase to identify gaps in requirements and failure modes in design.
• Automate tests based on highest value and priority.
• Collaborate with product, design, information security, and business teams to grasp domain knowledge.
• Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation.
• Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and test gap analysis.
• Provide technical assistance in the diagnosis of issues.
• Assist in identification of defect trends and partner with development teams to fix root causes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or 5 years software engineering experience).
• 5-10 years of software testing experience.
• Fintech, Trading, or Financial services industry experience.
• Experience in leading quality efforts for internet applications.
• Experience in test automation on UI, API, or other areas.
• Experience in enhancing existing Test Automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines.
• Fluency with AI technologies related to testing and validation.
• Experience in E2E Automation, contract testing, API Automation, load & performance testing.
• Experience mentoring other quality engineers.
• Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery.
• Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups.
• Background checks including employment and education verification, state and county criminal history searches, fingerprint, and drug test upon offer.

Skills

• AI technologies
• Agentic automation
• MCPs
• RAG applications
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Selenium
• K6
• CI/CD Pipelines
• E2E Automation
• Contract testing
• API Automation
• Load testing
• Performance testing

Location

• San Francisco, CA area

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5-10 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Salary/Compensations

• $175,000 - $205,000 + annual bonus

Benefits

• Annual bonus

About the Company

• Forge is a technology innovator in the private market, providing liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace.
• Forge's vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone by powering a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless.
• Forge enables employees to sell private shares, employers to reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity, and investors to participate in private unicorn growth.
• Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.
• The company is experiencing incredible interest from investors and demand from customers, necessitating team growth.

Equal Opportunity

• Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.