Software QA Engineer – Financial Services

*Quality Engineer * *Location: Plano, TX* *6 months contract* *Description: * *Notes: Hybrid, Wednesday onsite (every week)* *What we’re looking for * *We are looking for someone who can work effectively across engineering leadership, business and financial stakeholders, technology subject-matter experts, and controls-focused teams. This person should be comfortable partnering with developers building the system, accounting and SOX stakeholders defining control requirements, and other teams involved in integrations, releases, and audit readiness.* * *The ideal candidate brings strong experience testing end-to-end financial system services, including REST APIs, event-driven workflows, external integrations, and data integrations.* * *They should be able to design tests that validate non-functional requirements as part of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.* * *They should demonstrate critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to translate business, control, technical, and non-functional requirements into clear, executable test cases.* * *They should be documentation-minded, able to produce evidence that stands up to external audit, and comfortable moving between engineering conversations and SOX/internal-controls discussions.* *This role requires someone who can communicate clearly, ask thoughtful questions, identify gaps or ambiguity, and help ensure the software solution is correct, controlled, traceable, and audit ready.* *What you’ll be doing * * *Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans across multi-step financial workflows and state transitions* * *Validate complex financial computations, reconcile data across transactional and analytical layers, and write SQL queries against the system of record to verify correctness and consistency* * *Translate SOX, internal-control, business, and technical requirements into executable test cases in partnership with developers, accounting, and control stakeholders* * *Test maker-checker workflows, role-based access boundaries, and segregation-of-duties controls, including negative cases, via API testing* * *Test event-driven workflows across services, validating message delivery, processing order, idempotency, and failure handling* * *Validate that audit events are generated for every controlled state change (UI, batch, API), captured with accurate content and timestamps in an append-only, immutable evidence store* * *Test inbound data from third-party valuation/pricing systems and outbound payloads to systems of record for schema correctness, completeness, failure handling, and reconciliation* * *Produce audit-ready artifacts, including test plans, results narratives, and evidence packages, that stand alone during external-auditor fieldwork without additional explanation* * *Track defects through their full lifecycle, from identification through resolution, ensuring traceability and closure* * *Design and maintain automated test suites, integrating repeatable test scenarios into CI/CD pipelines to validate functional and non-functional requirements on every release* * *Generate and manage test data* * *Review logs, query data, and troubleshoot issues across application, integration, and data layers* * *Participate in sprint ceremonies, release readiness reviews, and production support triage as needed* * *Help establish and improve QA processes, standards, and best practices.* * *Requirements:* *What You’ll Bring* * *3+ years of QA/test engineering experience supporting backend financial, fintech, or regulated systems* * *Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience using pytest for test automation* * *Strong test automation skills with experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright a plus)* * *Strong SQL skills for non-trivial data validation, reconciliation, and control testing* * *SOX or internal-controls testing experience, including segregation-of-duties, maker-checker workflows, and audit-reviewed evidence* * *Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, REST-assured, or similar)* * *Critical thinking and attention to detail, able to identify ambiguity, validate assumptions, and produce clear, complete, audit-ready documentation* * *Effective communicator who moves fluidly between engineering, business/control stakeholders, and audit-facing discussions* *Added bonus if you have (Preferred): * *Interview process: 2 rounds video interview.* *Onsite interview for local candidate.* * *Experience with Java services and testing within Java-based microservice environments* * *Experience testing financial data for correctness, including calculations, reconciliations, balances, or valuation-related outputs* * *Experience validating immutable or append-only audit data* * *Experience with FastAPI backends and PostgreSQL systems of record* * *Experience working in financial services, fintech, accounting-adjacent systems, or other highly regulated environments* * *Knowledge of cloud services and deployment patterns in AWS* * *Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices* Pay: $57.55 per hour Application Question(s): * NO SPONSORED CANDIDATES - Nature of Projects demands- only US CITIZENS or GREEN CARD at this time. Please confirm." * are you ready to work on w2? Experience: * SOX / Sarbanes-Oxley/ Internal controls: 4 years (Required) * CI/CD: 4 years (Required) * QA Automation/ Test Automation: 4 years (Required) * Python/Pytest/Pytorch: 4 years (Required) * API Testing: 4 years (Required) * Backend Testing: 4 years (Required) * Financial Systems Testing: 4 years (Required) Location: * Plano, TX 75024 (Required) Work Location: Hybrid remote in Plano, TX 75024