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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.*\n\n* *The ideal candidate brings strong experience testing end-to-end financial system services, including REST APIs, event-driven workflows, external integrations, and data integrations.*\n* *They should be able to design tests that validate non-functional requirements as part of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.*\n* *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.*\n* *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.*\n\n*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.*\n\n*What you’ll be doing *\n\n* *Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans across multi-step financial workflows and state transitions*\n* *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*\n* *Translate SOX, internal-control, business, and technical requirements into executable test cases in partnership with developers, accounting, and control stakeholders*\n* *Test maker-checker workflows, role-based access boundaries, and segregation-of-duties controls, including negative cases, via API testing*\n* *Test event-driven workflows across services, validating message delivery, processing order, idempotency, and failure handling*\n* *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*\n* *Test inbound data from third-party valuation/pricing systems and outbound payloads to systems of record for schema correctness, completeness, failure handling, and reconciliation*\n* *Produce audit-ready artifacts, including test plans, results narratives, and evidence packages, that stand alone during external-auditor fieldwork without additional explanation*\n* *Track defects through their full lifecycle, from identification through resolution, ensuring traceability and closure*\n* *Design and maintain automated test suites, integrating repeatable test scenarios into CI/CD pipelines to validate functional and non-functional requirements on every release*\n* *Generate and manage test data*\n* *Review logs, query data, and troubleshoot issues across application, integration, and data layers*\n* *Participate in sprint ceremonies, release readiness reviews, and production support triage as needed*\n* *Help establish and improve QA processes, standards, and best practices.*\n* *Requirements:*\n\n*What You’ll Bring*\n\n* *3+ years of QA/test engineering experience supporting backend financial, fintech, or regulated systems*\n* *Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience using pytest for test automation*\n* *Strong test automation skills with experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright a plus)*\n* *Strong SQL skills for non-trivial data validation, reconciliation, and control testing*\n* *SOX or internal-controls testing experience, including segregation-of-duties, maker-checker workflows, and audit-reviewed evidence*\n* *Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, REST-assured, or similar)*\n* *Critical thinking and attention to detail, able to identify ambiguity, validate assumptions, and produce clear, complete, audit-ready documentation*\n* *Effective communicator who moves fluidly between engineering, business/control stakeholders, and audit-facing discussions*\n\n*Added bonus if you have (Preferred): *\n*Interview process: 2 rounds video interview.*\n*Onsite interview for local candidate.*\n\n* *Experience with Java services and testing within Java-based microservice environments*\n* *Experience testing financial data for correctness, including calculations, reconciliations, balances, or valuation-related outputs*\n* *Experience validating immutable or append-only audit data*\n* *Experience with FastAPI backends and PostgreSQL systems of record*\n* *Experience working in financial services, fintech, accounting-adjacent systems, or other highly regulated environments*\n* *Knowledge of cloud services and deployment patterns in AWS*\n* *Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices*\n\nPay: $57.55 per hour\n\nApplication Question(s):\n* NO SPONSORED CANDIDATES - Nature of Projects demands- only US CITIZENS or GREEN CARD at this time. 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