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Senior QA Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management · Hedge fund · New York · Senior · Posted 2026-06-08

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Senior QA Engineer

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.

In the role of QA Engineer, you will be responsible for the following:

  • 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
  • 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 with IBOR/ABOR, Flash P&L etc. middle office functions
  • Programming experience in a must (Python, Java or C#) and be able to use AI tools to learn new platforms
  • Experience in AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Codex etc.) is a plus.
  • Experience using version controls (Git, TFS, Mercurial, SVN …)
  • Test automation experience and interested in integrating tests with CI process
  • Exposure to software development methodologies and familiar with programming concepts --- must be able 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

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