Senior Engineer, Software Development Test QE

Name of Employer: LPL Financial LLC Position Title: Senior Engineer, Software Development Test QE (Req# 000122) Requisition: 000122 Hours: 40 hours per week Salary Range: $132,000 - $142,000 per year Location: 13620 N FM 620 Building C, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78717 Telecommuting: None JOB DUTIES: Build end-to-end (E2E) automation solutions to connect financial services platforms. Work with inter-disciplinary team of hardware, firmware, software, system, and test engineers to develop and integrate technologies. Create, execute, and automate test plans and GUI automation test cases using Agile practices. Implement automated tests for SOAP, REST services, and backend microservices/API. Develop and execute automated tests for database validation of data-loads and data ingestion, including synthetic data generation and automated reconciliation for data migrations. Validate and automate backend systems, financial transactions, enterprise billing systems, rate structures, and compliance rules and conduct performance testing including load, stress, and endurance testing for UI and API applications capturing key metrics. Maintain source code with version control tools and manage continuous testing workflows with zero-touch deployment pipelines using CI/CD practices. Validate functions, transformation, third party messages, data ingestion, and third-party integrations and work with message queues and cron jobs for batch processing validation. Implement shift-left mechanisms by collaborating with development and release management teams to embed quality into every phase,reduce defect detection time, and perform security testing. Write complex SQL scripts for data validation of data warehouse with multiple data sources and automating DB validation. Create and document test scripts, defects, and comprehensive performance test reports with quality dashboards. REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation building automation test frameworks within a financial domain. ALTERNATIVELY: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation building automation test frameworks within a financial domain. Applicants must possess demonstrated expertise with the following: Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") working in an Agile or Scrum environment, delivering software applications and implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using GitHub Actions. DE working with established automation test frameworks, including JUnit, TestNG, UI and Mobile Testing, using REST API testing; and developing automation testing using Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber, and Behavior Driven Development (BDD). DE creating test cases using test management tools (ALM or JIRA) for user stories in RESTful API Services and maintaining data scenarios to support test plans and test cases. DE developing software for test automation and programming in Python, Java, and JavaScript using automation frameworks and working with synthetic data engineering using Pandas and PySpark to validate large-scale financial datasets. DE developing and executing complex SQL queries with performance tuning expertise across MySQL, SQL Server, working with message queues and cron jobs for batch processing validation, and working with batch job validation for large-scale data platforms. DE in data quality testing and ETL testing, including building automated reconciliation systems for data migrations, and validating data transformations with mutation testing. DE working with enterprise financial systems, including enterprise billing systems, financial transactions, rate structures, and compliance requirements and working with Kubernetes and AWS components including S3, RDS. DE in performance testing using JMeter to conduct load, stress, and endurance testing for both UI and API applications; capturing and analyzing key metrics including throughput, response times, and error rates; and creating comprehensive performance test reports. CONTACT: To apply, please email View email address on click.appcast.io and reference Req# 000122. Pay Range: $132,000 - $142,000 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 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 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 View phone number on click.appcast.io. EAC 5.19.26 LPL Financial is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer.* Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals. To understand who we are, it’s important to know our core belief: financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best – create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities. Each year, thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets. Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. To learn more about our organization visit our About LPL page. * As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2019, based on total revenue. Want to learn more about the benefits of working at LPL? Check out the links below! We Are LPL Benefits Culture Social Responsibility