Lead Associate, Quality Assurance & Engineering

About BetaNXT BetaNXT is a leading provider of frictionless wealth management infrastructure, real-time data solutions, and an enhanced advisor experience. We invest in platforms, products, and partnerships to accelerate growth for the ecosystem we serve. Our connective approach empowers our clients to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end advisor and investor experience. BetaNXT is a premier provider of technology, data, and operations as services to a rich client base of wealth managers, institutional wealth firms, and digital brokers. It is comprised of three industry-leading businesses which, combined, provide end-to-end solutions across the investment lifecycle.

Overview We’re seeking a Specialist, Quality Assurance and Engineering to join one of our Scrum teams and help shape how quality and automation scale across customers facing financial platforms. This role goes beyond test execution, you’ll influence test strategy, automation standards, and quality gates, while owning the end-to-end quality of your team’s deliverables. You’ll partner closely with developers, product owners, and fellow QEs to ensure our solutions are reliable, maintainable, and ready to scale. Reporting to the Manager, Technology Development, you will be embedded within the Maxit product team, responsible for ensuring the quality, accuracy, and reliability of Cost Basis Reporting (CBR) web applications and services. This role focuses on validating data‑intensive, API‑driven, and batch‑oriented financial systems built using modern backend and UI technologies. As part of our global Quality Engineering organization, you’ll help expand and stabilize our automated testing capabilities while working in a hybrid model alongside teams based in Bangalore, India.

Duties And Responsibilities Quality & Test Strategy

• Own the overall quality of your team’s deliverables across functional, integration, and regression testing
• Review product requirements and design effective test plans, scenarios, and test cases with clear traceability
• Partner with stakeholders to define testing scope, inputs/outputs, and quality expectations
• Apply risk-based thinking to prioritize high value test coverage and release confidence

Automation & Execution

• Design and build automated tests for UI and/or API layers with an automation first mindset.
• Maintain reliable, maintainable, and scalable automation suites with strong regression value.
• Execute and support testing activities including functional, integration, regression, and UAT support.

Continuous Improvement

• Manage defect reporting and proactively identify systemic quality risks.
• Troubleshoot failures end-to-end across automation code, environments, test data, and application defects.
• Mentor peers and contribute to evolving automation practices and standards.
• Passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and participating in technology communities.

Skills and Experience of the Specialist, Quality Assurance and Engineering

• 6+ years of experience testing complex web-based applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies including functional, regression, negative, integration, and system testing.
• Strong programming experience in at least one modern language used for test automation (e.g., C#, Java, or TypeScript)
• Experience building and maintaining UI automation using modern frameworks (e.g., Selenium or Playwright).
• Experience testing APIs using industry standard tools (e.g., Postman, ReadyAPI, or Rest API)
• Experience using BDD style frameworks (e.g., Cucumber).
• Perform integration testing involving IBM MQ/messaging queues where applicable.
• Familiarity with Bash/Shell scripts.
• Perform extensive Oracle DB validation using SQL scripting.
• Solid fundamentals in debugging, triage, and root cause analysis, including pipeline failures
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, or similar)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within Agile/Scrum environments Nice to Have
• Software testing certification.
• Experience across multiple automation stacks or languages.
• Experience with batch‑driven financial systems.
• Exposure to AI assisted testing or automation acceleration (e.g., improving test design, maintenance, or failure triage using AI)
• Understanding of brokerage or wealth‑management back‑office workflows like Cost Basis Reporting (CBR) or tax‑lot.