Altruist
Senior QA Engineer, Platform
Los Angeles, CA · Senior
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About the role
- Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire a Senior QA Engineer to join our growing Platform team.
- That makes quality here a different problem: there is rarely a screen to click through, the consumers of what you test are other engineering teams, and a defect that escapes doesn't affect one feature - it affects everything built on top of it.
- This is a hands-on role for someone who is genuinely comfortable in the backend and wants their testing to have leverage across the whole organization.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end functional testing for Platform services across API, event, and database layers
- Design and validate contracts between services, catching breaking changes before downstream product teams ever see them
- Partner with Platform engineers to build testability into services from design onward
- Use Jira to manage test cases, track defects, and support efficient agile workflows
- In this role you'll own quality for distributed backend services, working at the API, contract, event, and data layers.
- Experience building, maintaining, and executing test plans in partnership with cross-functional teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer or Software Test Engineer, ideally within a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
- Strong hands-on experience testing backend services and APIs, with a demonstrated ability to uncover meaningful defects through exploratory and contract-level testing
- Experience testing microservices and distributed systems, where failures cross service boundaries
- Experience working in agile environments with a regular release cadence
- Proficiency with SQL and comfort validating data directly in the database
- proficiency with Java or another object-oriented language
- Familiarity with data encryption methodologies focused on PII
- Familiarity with tooling such as Kafka, Debezium, Temporal, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience testing AI-powered applications, including chatbots, assistants, or other LLM- or ML-based systems
- Knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services industry, including margin, options, account types, and trade lifecycle
Nice to have
- Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, pipelines in GitLab a plus
Compensation
- Los Angeles, CA salary range
Benefits
- Build and maintain test automation frameworks in Java using REST Assured and Postman for API coverage, extending to Playwright or Selenium where Platform capabilities surface in the UI
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining automated regression coverage
Company info
- We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.
- But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
- Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard.
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