Software Development Engineer In Test

Company Overview

hermeneutic research is a best-in-class proprietary trading firm. It deploys research-driven discretionary and systematic strategies as well as makes strategic long-term investments. The partners' decade-long history of success in trading and business building and a firm-wide cultural emphasis on alpha generation, open debate, relentless iteration, and teamwork are key to the firm's continued expansion in a challenging market environment that has hamstrung competitors. A hard-wired emphasis on risk management and opportunistic market participation ensure that hermeneutic research will continue its growth trajectory in the coming decades.

Job Overview

As a Senior SDET, you will play a critical, hands-on role in ensuring the quality, reliability, resilience and performance of our trading and research systems. This is a software-engineering role: you will design and build test automation from the ground up, not just execute test plans. You will work closely with engineers, researchers, trading and operations teams to design, automate and own testing strategies across services and workflows.

This is an individual-contributor role focused on deep technical execution, framework ownership and quality advocacy. You will shape best practices, identify gaps in existing testing approaches, and drive improvements across the SDLC, particularly in high-ambiguity areas where testing is limited or does not yet exist.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own automated test frameworks and suites for backend services, APIs and UIs from the ground up
• Ensure adequate coverage across functional, integration and performance testing
• Collaborate closely with engineering, research, trading and operations teams to define test requirements and quality expectations
• Identify gaps in existing test strategies and work with engineering to improve coverage and reliability
• Advocate and implement shift-left testing so issues are caught early in the SDLC
• Participate in architecture and design discussions to drive testability and automation
• Validate correctness and performance in low-latency, high-throughput conditions

Requirements

Must Haves

• 5+ years in QA/test automation engineering, including demonstrable hands-on ownership of an automation framework built from scratch (architecture and design decisions you can speak to in depth)
• Strong programming ability in at least one of Python, TypeScript, Go or C++, used to build frameworks and tooling, not just author test scripts