Senior Software Engineer in Test

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building and testing high-quality, scalable API and web applications. You will join the Financial Planning and Advice product area, where you will apply strong software engineering and test automation expertise to design, develop, validate, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications supporting Financial Planning and Advice.

In this role, you will contribute hands-on to API and UI development, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline enablement, and DevOps initiatives. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure high standards for quality, security, performance, and accessibility. You will also help drive best practices in engineering excellence, modern testing strategies, and continuous delivery.

Senior Software Engineers at Fidelity Investments demonstrate technical depth, leadership, ownership, and the ability to collaborate across teams while continuously learning and adopting new technologies.

Do you have a Master’s degree?, * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• 6-9 years of experience in software engineering with a strong emphasis on API and web application development and test automation
• Financial services domain knowledge would be a plus

Core Technical Skills

• Strong experience designing, developing, and testing RESTful APIs and modern web applications
• Deep expertise in automated testing frameworks for API and UI validation, including: Cypress, Playwright Rest Assured JUnit, TestNG, Maven
• Experience building scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks aligned with CI/CD pipelines

DevOps & Platform Experience

• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools and pipelines (Jenkins Core, GitHub Actions, monorepos, etc.)
• Experience supporting build, test, and deployment automation
• Proficiency with source control and branching strategies (GitHub, Bitbucket/Stash, Sourcetree)
• Cloud experience preferred, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Technology Stack & Tools

• Frontend & API: Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, Java
• API tooling & validation: Rest Assured, Swagger/OpenAPI, Insomnia/Bruno
• Quality & observability: Xray, Chaos testing, Splunk, Datadog
• Data & persistence: SQL
• Delivery & planning: Jira, Jenkins Core

Engineering Excellence

• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and experience building and testing accessible web applications
• Focus on deployment automation, orchestration, and release health
• Experience managing code branches, merges, versioning, and pipeline troubleshooting
• Ability to use testing and testability principles to influence better software design, security, and defect prevention
• Experience building automated coverage across unit, component, integration, functional, and performance testing layers

Modern Engineering Practices

• Exposure to emerging technologies and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ownership mindset and ability to work independently under general direction
• Proven collaboration skills to improve test coverage, release velocity, and production stability
• Passion for delivering high-quality, end-to-end customer experiences

The Engineering Excellence (EE) Chapter is part of Fidelity’s Wealth business unit and supports teams across the organization by providing deep engineering and quality expertise. The chapter partners with delivery squads to ensure products meet the highest standards for quality, security, stability, and customer experience.

The EE team is made up of multi-skilled engineers who thrive on complex challenges, including automated and performance testing, chaos engineering, cloud migration and management, CI/CD implementation, security testing, and application development. Our mission is to elevate engineering practices and enable teams to build the right products the right way.