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Altruist is transforming the wealth management industry with an AI platform for financial advisors. The company partners with financial professionals nationwide to help them grow, optimize resources, and deliver superior client outcomes.
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will own quality across Altruist's user-facing platform and internal systems, spanning browser experience, API behavior, and data layers. This is a hands-on role where you'll lead both exploratory manual testing and automation efforts to ensure a fast, reliable, and scalable product experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end functional testing across UI, API, and database layers
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to define test cases, clarify requirements, and ensure high-quality feature delivery
- Build and maintain test automation frameworks in Java using Playwright and Selenium for UI coverage, and REST Assured and Postman for API coverage
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to surface failures early and reliably
- Design and execute test plans for AI-powered features
- Use Jira to manage test cases, track defects, and support agile workflows
- Leverage AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor) to accelerate test script development and improve defect triage
- Identify quality gaps and champion continuous improvement across the testing function
You bring 5+ years of QA or Software Test Engineering experience, ideally in B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS. You have strong hands-on manual testing skills across UI and API, with demonstrated ability to uncover meaningful defects through exploratory testing. You're proficient in SQL, Java or another object-oriented language, and have hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, and Postman. You hold a B.A./B.S. in Computer Science or related field. You take ownership of product quality end-to-end, communicate clearly with engineers and stakeholders, and thrive in fast-paced environments while maintaining high quality standards.
