Senior QA Engineer, UI/UX role at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.

Role Overview

You will be an integral member of our QA and development teams, working side by side with project managers, developers and end-users to build quality into our applications at every stage of development.

Responsibilities

• Develop Test Plans, Test cases, Test Procedures for various types of testing such as Ad Hoc, Functional, GUI, Integration, Regression, Data Validation, User Interface, and overall system integration.
• Test applications to discover bugs, as well as provide feedback on usability.
• Participate in brainstorming meetings and daily scrums.
• Meet with users to understand business requirements.
• Stay up to date on best practices and technologies in QA and coach the team.
• Proactively assess risks and help to find issues as early as possible.
• Help to improve our developer testing processes.
• Writing test automation code and participating in code reviews.
• Help contribute to the internal knowledge base, and train users on how to use our applications.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in software QA role.
• Financial industry experience a plus, but not mandatory.
• Must have demonstrable experience and a solid grasp of automated web application testing frameworks, with proficiency in tools such as Cypress, Selenium, or Playwright.
• Experience with Playwright, particularly using TypeScript, is highly desirable.
• Highly desirable to have demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools or frameworks to enhance test automation, defect detection, or root cause analysis in software quality assurance processes.
• Test automation experience and interested in integrating tests with CI process.
• Exposure to software development methodologies and familiar with programming concepts --- unafraid to write code to break code.
• Enthusiastic about helping to deliver high-quality applications, and love to break things.
• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills.
• Great attitude and adaptable to taking on many diverse responsibilities.
• Passion for self-improvement and continual learning.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time