Sr. QA Manager

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Join us as we redefine whats possible in trading advocate for our customers and continue our journey toward becoming the worlds top retail-focused trading platform in the world.

What youll do:

Were seeking a Sr. QA Manager to lead and evolve the quality engineering function at NinjaTrader. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for embedding quality across the SDLCnot just through validation but by driving a preventative testability-first culture from the very beginning of product planning.

Youll manage a team of QA engineers integrate quality processes into our CI/CD pipelines and leverage AI-powered automation tools to scale QA. A critical part of this role is building test strategies that go beyond basic checks to ensure that what we release reflects the full customer experience.

Experience in regulated industries especially financial services is highly desirable.

In this role you will:

• Lead coach and scale a QA team supporting multiple agile product squads
• Define and drive a comprehensive QA strategy grounded in user experience covering:
  • Functional testing
  • Regression testing
  • Load/performance testing
  • Exploratory testing
• Champion a shift-left testing mindset ensuring QA input is part of early design and planning
• Integrate and scale AI-based test automation including n8n and other generative AI tools for intelligent testing and automation
• Own and optimize QAs role in CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-confidence low-friction releases
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and DevOps to prioritize testability in design and implementation
• Measure and continuously improve key QA metrics: test coverage defect escape rate release quality etc
• Promote quality as a core engineering value not a separate gatekeeping function
• Uphold engineering quality and execution standards including code reviews test coverage release pipelines observability and incident response

What youll need:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• 10 years of experience in software QA including 3 years in a leadership or management role
• Proven experience building test strategies that reflect the end-to-end user experience
• Hands-on knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium Playwright Cypress Postman)
• Familiarity with n8n and other AI or generative automation tools for testing or workflow automation
• Experience working in regulated industries; financial services/trading platforms strongly preferred
• Solid programming/scripting in Python JavaScript C# Scala or Java
• Strong communication cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Deep belief in preventative quality practices and building testable systems by design

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $145000.00 - $165000.00 addition this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 15%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).

Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year (some positions may qualify for more) plus seven paid holidays.

Location:

This role is based in Chicago IL. *There may be remote flexibility for exceptional candidates in the following states: California Colorado Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Minnesota New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon South Carolina Texas Utah Virginia Washington Washington D.C. Wisconsin New Jersey Pennsylvania.

Hybrid:

For Chicago-based employees we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday with remote work on Mondays and addition to these weekly remote days we offer:

• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays

Our Core Benefits Include:

• Generous PTO
• 7 Paid Holidays Annually 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 401k with 3.5% Company Match
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Health Vision Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

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