QA Engineer
Charles Schwab Inc.
- Location
- Onsite (Austin, TX · Chicago, IL)
- Compensation
- $130k - $150k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Charles Schwab is seeking a QA Engineer to lead test planning and execution for complex trading and margin-related applications. The role involves establishing testing strategies, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality within the SDLC.
Skills
Perks
- Bonus opportunities
- Incentive opportunities
Full job details
Your Opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).
As a QA Manager, Software Development & Engineering, you will help protect the quality and reliability of applications supporting complex trading and margin-related capabilities. You will lead test planning and execution, establish effective testing strategies, identify risks, and guide defect resolution before software is released to production.
Working closely with QA engineers, application development teams, business analysts, product owners, and external technology partners, you will apply Quality Assurance, Problem Solving, and Cross-Functional Collaboration to strengthen acceptance criteria and deliver high-quality test plans and test cases. You will use sound Decision Making to evaluate testing approaches, environments, tools, and release readiness.
This role also provides an opportunity to mentor QA engineers, improve testing standards, and recommend process or technical changes. Your leadership will promote consistent execution, stronger partnerships, and continuous improvement across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
What you have
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software testing or Quality Assurance experience, including test planning, test-case development, defect management, and release validation
- Demonstrated expertise in margin concepts and their application within financial or trading systems
- Understanding of the order and trade lifecycle across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange, or cryptocurrency
- Understanding of option-matching strategies
- Experience performing Problem Solving, root-cause analysis, and Risk Mitigation for software defects and release issues
- Ability to lead manual and automated testing activities and produce high-quality testing documentation
- Ability to collaborate with application development teams, business analysts, product owners, and internal or external technology partners
- Strong Analytical Thinking, Decision Making, Communication, and Attention to Detail
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience managing small-to-medium-sized projects
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring QA engineers, and coordinating work across distributed or offshore testing teams
- Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), product lifecycles, test environments, and system integrations
- Experience with Windows, Linux, UNIX, Oracle, REST APIs, Swagger, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Jira
- Experience supporting release planning, implementation timelines, defect tracking, and Process Improvement
- Strong financial markets or operations knowledge
- Ability to serve as a Subject Matter Expert and provide guidance across projects and initiatives
In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.