Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Trading

About Us

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

Drive Wealth is seeking a hands‑on Senior QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team supporting core trading platforms. This role is embedded within a product engineering team and focuses on building scalable automation, ensuring high‑quality releases, and improving testing practices across the SDLC.

The ideal candidate has strong technical automation experience and prior exposure to trading systems, margin products, and crypto asset classes.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Java, Cucumber (BDD), and Rest Assured
• Build and execute automated tests across API, FIX protocol, and UI layer
• Validate end-to-end trading workflows including order lifecycle, margin flows, and post trading
• Create test plans, scenarios, and regression suites for financial systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions)
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot defects, and improve test coverage
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams on testing strategy and quality improvements
• Participate in test reviews, bug triage, and production issue analysis

• 8–10 years QA experience in financial services or trading platforms
• Strong hands‑on programming in Java
• Automation experience with Cucumber / BDD,
  Rest Assured, Playwright, Typescript
• Experience testing REST APIs and FIX Protocol, Kafka
• Knowledge of Margin trading and Crypto asset workflows
• Experience with AWS, Git, Jenkins, SQL/Postgres
• Familiarity with JIRA and test management tools (Allure Test Ops)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Drive Wealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time.

Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note:

this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range $165,000 — $180,000 USD

We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York and Chicago teams work in‑office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side‑by‑side is the only way to solve complex problems in real‑time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you’re here, you’re working directly with the people making the decisions.

To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer full insurance coverage, a wellness reimbursement, a company‑provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away…