About the Role

The Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist serves as a key technical contributor, driving quality for Rothera's instrument management systems. You will perform hands-on manual testing of internal and customer facing user interfaces, implementing comprehensive front-end automation testing and extending the qa automation framework to ensure seamless orchestration of instrument listings and settlement instructions. You are a detail-oriented engineer who works closely with Product and Engineering to enforce rigorous quality standards across our core financial technology.

This role is central to delivering a reliable, high-performance platform essential for our CFTC Regulated Exchange and Clearing business.
What You'll Do

1. Manual & Exploratory Testing

• Execute manual testing for the Instrument Management, Exchange and Clearing platform user interfaces, validating UI/UX responsiveness, accessibility, and critical user workflows.
• Design and maintain comprehensive test cases for administrative and operations interfaces, ensuring functional correctness and edge-case coverage.

2. Front-End & Back-End Automation

• Build and maintain the front-end automation suite (Playwright) to ensure regression stability across modern web interfaces.
• Develop back-end automation to rigorously validate Admin and Customer facing API endpoints of REST and Websocket.
• Develop back-end end-to-end testing to validate critical system workflows.
• Integrate automated test suites into the CI/CD pipeline to enable rapid, reliable deployment cycles.

3. Quality Strategy & Reporting

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define and enforce rigorous quality standards.
• Monitor test platform system performance, data integrity, and security compliance to ensure the platform meets the demands of a high-stakes regulated exchange.

What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in a quality assurance or software testing role, preferably within financial services.
• Experience with testing tools such as Cucumber, Playwright and JUnit and familiar with test reporting and analysis.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, FIX, SQL .
• Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets is preferred.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Benefits & Compensation

This position has a base salary of $120,000 to $140,000 per year, plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus program.

Rothera is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.
Why you should join the mission

If you want a critical role in a path-breaking company, you belong here.

This is a full-time, in-person hybrid position. This position is not available for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent, indefinite basis.