Senior Engineer, Software Development Test QE
Company: LPL Financial
Location: Austin, TX 78717
Salary: $132,000 - $142,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-30
About this role
Name of Employer: LPL Financial LLC
Position Title: Senior Engineer, Software Development Test QE (Req# 000122)
Requisition: 000122
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary Range: $132,000 - $142,000 per year
Location: 13620 N FM 620 Building C, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78717
Telecommuting: None
JOB DUTIES:
- Build end-to-end (E2E) automation solutions to connect financial services platforms.
- Work with inter-disciplinary team of hardware, firmware, software, system, and test engineers to develop and integrate technologies.
- Create, execute, and automate test plans and GUI automation test cases using Agile practices.
- Implement automated tests for SOAP, REST services, and backend microservices/API.
- Develop and execute automated tests for database validation of data-loads and data ingestion, including synthetic data generation and automated reconciliation for data migrations.
- Validate and automate backend systems, financial transactions, enterprise billing systems, rate structures, and compliance rules and conduct performance testing including load, stress, and endurance testing for UI and API applications capturing key metrics.
- Maintain source code with version control tools and manage continuous testing workflows with zero-touch deployment pipelines using CI/CD practices.
- Validate functions, transformation, third party messages, data ingestion, and third-party integrations and work with message queues and cron jobs for batch processing validation.
- Implement shift-left mechanisms by collaborating with development and release management teams to embed quality into every phase,reduce defect detection time, and perform security testing.
- Write complex SQL scripts for data validation of data warehouse with multiple data sources and automating DB validation.
- Create and document test scripts, defects, and comprehensive performance test reports with quality dashboards.
REQUIREMENTS:
MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachel...