Senior Software Development Engineer Test (SDET)

forgeglobal

San Francisco, California, United States · San Francisco · United States

Posted Jul 29, 2026

Contract
Engineering

Job description

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role:

Forge’s quality engineering team’s charter is to improve product quality. We thrive on holding high standards, obsessing over our customers, and living our values of being bold, humble and accountable.

We are seeking a Sr Software Development Engineer in Test with experience developing testing solutions and tooling to improve quality for financial trading systems or similar applications. This role will work on our platform and reliability engineering team. These teams own Forge’s infrastructure, developer experience and deployment engineering. We are looking for a senior, technical and customer focused candidate who will also embody Forge values. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings and is motivated by creating success all around them through strong communication, shipping great product experiences, and making data-driven decisions. They will be working closely with other quality engineers in the team to define and execute the testing strategy.

Responsibilities:

Build comprehensive bottoms up Test Strategies for infrastructure changes and releases
Built test automation frameworks, tools, solutions to make testing faster, efficient and stable
Leverage artificial intelligence technologies to augment testing activities
Experience with AI solutions such as agentic automation, MCPs, RAG applications etc
Write tests plans covering various customer use cases – functional, compliance & legal aspects
Engage is projects from the initiation phase to identify gaps in requirement and failure modes in design
Automate tests based on what’s most valuable and high priority
Collaborate with Forge’s product, design, information security and business team members to quickly grasp domain knowledge.
Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation[RP1.1][AD1.2]
Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, test gap analysis with assistance from other team members
Provide technical assistance in the diagnosis of issues
Assist in identification of defect trends of their areas and partner with development teams to fix the root cause

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or 5 years software engineering experience)
5-10 years of software testing experience
Fintech, Trading or Financial services industry experience
Experience in leading quality efforts for internet applications
Experience in test automation on UI, API or others
Experience in enhancing existing Test Automation frameworks – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, K6 etc.
Experience with CI/CD Pipelines
Fluency with AI technologies related to testing and validation

Desired Qualifications:

Experience in E2E Automation, contract testing, API Automation, load & performance testing
Experience mentoring other quality engineers
Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery
Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups

For residents of the San Francisco, CA area, the annual salary range for this role is $175,000 - $205,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.