QA Engineer

CAIS is a fintech firm on a mission to build the first truly open marketplace for alternative investments. We are a rapidly growing, high-energy, and collaborative group looking for people with great attitudes, grit, and creative problem-solving skills. Join us in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry.

We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Quality Assurance Engineer to join our growing Technology team. Reporting to the Head of Platform and Operations, this high-impact role will validate and test new features and application components for both new and existing product releases and verify bug fixes to ensure that we release the highest-quality software to our financial services community. Ideal candidates have unparalleled attention to detail, and bring a positive, creative, and collaborative approach to problem solving. You take ownership and pride in your work and recognize the impact of your role on the company’s success. This is a great opportunity to join a growing team of innovative problem solvers working to elevate and scale our platform and prosper with us along the way.

Responsibilities

• Test of multiple, simultaneous projects and application components for both existing and new product features
• Automate test cases using Java/Kotlin/JS
• Analyze and communicate test results and manage defect tracking
• Suggest solutions to identified product problems to make improvement sot achieve improved user satisfaction
• Work closely with the product and engineering teams to validate product features and capabilities, and to identify and resolve any and all reported issues
• Capable of working in an agile and continuous testing cycle
• Identify key KPIs for product quality, and ensure test coverage is met for Unit, Integration, Regression, Security, and Performance testing
• Test planning and documentation of testing for new feature development
• Capable of manual exploratory testing of new features

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Quality Engineering or Quality Assurance experience
• Experience with automated test frameworks and tools
• Experience with Git, Pull Request flow, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with a micro-service web-based architecture, service structure, and REST APIs
• Experience with UI testing frameworks
• Experience with Docker and K8 advantageous
• Experience with GraphQL APIs advantageous
• Proven track record for diving deep on technical issues with developers
• Prior experience working in asset management or wealth management preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate independently and as a team
• Sense of ownership and a "whatever it takes" attitude towards getting stuff done
• Understand software development lifecycle and are familiar working in an agile environment
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Information Systems strongly preferred