At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.
With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.
Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.
Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.
The Role:
Forge’s quality engineering team’s charter is to improve product quality. We thrive on holding high standards, obsessing over our customers, and living our values of being bold, humble and accountable.
We are seeking a Staff Quality Engineer with at least 8 years of experience owning and delivering quality for large complex financial trading systems. This role will work on our trading team. We are looking for a senior, technical and customer focused candidate who will also embody Forge values. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings and is motivated by creating success all around them through strong communication, shipping great product experiences, and making data-driven decision
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in our San Francisco, CA office
Responsibilities:
- Build comprehensive bottoms up Test Strategies for our platform services organization
- Write tests plans covering various customer use cases – functional, compliance & legal aspects
- Engage is projects from the initiation phase to identify gaps in requirement and failure modes in design
- Be a force multiplier to help developers shift testing left
- Automate tests based on what’s most valuable and high priority and help adopt best practices to improve code quality
- Collaborate with Forge’s product, design, information security and business team members to quickly grasp domain knowledge.
- Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation[RP1] [AD2]
- Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
- Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of issues, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
- Identify defect trends and partner with development teams to fix the root cause
- Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to improve the impact and efficiency of testing
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or 5 years software engineering experience)
- 8-12 years of software testing experience
- Fintech, Trading or Financial services industry experience
- Experience in leading quality efforts for internet applications
- Physical requirements: operate a computer for at least 8 hours per day; give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication
For residents of the SF, CA the annual salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors
Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our 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.
Forge San Francisco, California, USA Office
Forge San Francisco Office Office
Our SF office is located in the heart of the financial district and right next to the historic Ferry building.
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