Senior Engineer, Software Dev Test Quality Engineering (Req# 000106)

Name of Employer:      LPL Financial LLC

Position Title:              Senior Engineer, Software Dev Test Quality Engineering (Req# 000106)

Requisition:                 000106

Hours:                         40 hours per week

Salary Range:              $129,100 - $139,100 per year

Location:                     1055 LPL Way, Fort Mill, SC 29715

Telecommuting:          20% Telecommuting permitted

JOB DUTIES:

• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks for financial services applications.

• Create, execute, and automate test plans and GUI automation test cases within Agile/Scrum environment.

• Implement automated tests for web services and backend microservices/APIs.

• Maintain source code with version control tools and ensure coding standards and quality.

• Validate cloud services, including storage, messaging, monitoring, serverless functions, and third-party integrations using open-source tools.

• Validate and automate backend systems and data workflows, including diverse data formats, messaging services, relational databases, and third-party message ingestion and transformation processes.

• Recommend new tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance productivity and quality in test automation.

• Implement shift-left testing by collaborating with development and release management teams.

• Write complex SQL scripts for data validation in a Data Warehouse with multiple data sources and automate DB validations.

• Develop and execute automated database validation tests for data loads and ingestion, while creating and documenting test scripts and defects in project management tools.

REQUIREMENTS:

MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic Engineering or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

ALTERNATIVELY: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic Engineering or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Applicants must possess demonstrated expertise with the following:

• Demonstrated Expertise (DE) in Investment Management, including SMAs, UMAs, trading workflows, and model management; using MSCI Tax Optimizer (QIS) for portfolio modeling, construction, and rebalancing to align with client objectives, risk constraints, and tax considerations.

• DE designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks within a CI/CD environment using Selenium, Appium, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, Rest Assured, Maven, Octopus and GitHub Actions with modular framework and Page Object Model design pattern.

• DE validating cloud storage, messaging services, monitoring, transformations, ingestion and serverless functions in AWS S3, AWS Glue Jobs, AWS Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, Lambda.

• DE writing complex SQL queries for database validation in SQL Server and PostGres SQL DB.

• DE developing and maintaining UI as well as API automation tests using Microsoft Playwright with Typescript as a programming language.

• DE working on test management tools QTest and Zephyr and its integration with JIRA.

• DE using GitHub to maintain code quality standards and troubleshooting issues using SONARQube.

• DE validating third-party integrations and messages using open-source tools POSTMAN, SOAP UI, Swagger, and Kafka topics in AWS Cloud.

 

Pay Range:

$129,100 - $139,100 per year

 

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

 

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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