Software Engineer in Test
The Role
The WI Emerging Business is seeking a Software Engineer in Test to help automate the testing of our product. The ideal candidate enjoys designing, developing, and maintaining automated test suites to ensure product quality and release readiness. You will be encouraged to work closely with application owners, developers, and engineering managers to review requirements, build automation frameworks and implement solutions in an Agile environment.
We seek a hardworking individual capable of bringing a software engineering approach to our testing practices by providing innovative ideas on how to design, develop and maintain our test suites and infrastructure.
The Expertise You Bring
- BS or above in Computer Science or related field
- 6 plus years of professional Testing/Development experience involving UI and API Automation
- Verifiable experience building and maintaining an automation framework in a large enterprise environment using Playwright and/or Cypress
- Verifiable experience using Typescript and/or JavaScript and Cucumber/BDD
- Ability to investigate, isolate, and solve technical issues across the full technology stack by using automated & manual testing methodologies
- Verifiable experience following standard methodologies for testing Angular/Vue based UI and RESTful webservices
- Experience in a DevOps environment with CI/CD tools; experience with Git/Bitbucket Server (Stash), Jenkins, and uDeploy
- Experience with Code Quality/Coverage Tools (Sonar), is a plus
- Ability to work in a fast paced, highly matrix environment to achieve team goals
- A desire and interest in learning innovative technologies
- Experience using business requirements to craft, develop and maintain test plans, test cases
- Work as part of team of SDET’s focused on automation and build reusable artifacts
- A learning demeanor to your work and are eager to master and adopt new technologies
The Expertise You Bring
- Defining and developing a suite of automation tests for Emerging Business
- Working closely with product, developers, and engineering
- Rapid prototyping to validate good and bad ideas quickly
- Writing source code, adapting existing components, and testing developed components
- Ensuring designs meet performance, security, usability, and reliability and scalability requirements
The Team
This role will be on an Agile team working within the Emerging Business. You will work with another automation engineer, multiple developers, a product manager to help create and test new products in this space.
The team works on a 2-week cadence and there is lot of cross squad collaboration in our space. You will also be part of the Emerging Business/Digital Chapter and the automation community within.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
- 6 or more years of professional testing or software development experience involving UI and API automation
- Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks in a large enterprise environment using Playwright and/or Cypress
- Experience with TypeScript and/or JavaScript and Cucumber/BDD
- Ability to investigate, isolate, and resolve technical issues across the full technology stack using automated and manual testing
- Experience testing Angular or Vue user interfaces and RESTful web services
- Experience in a DevOps environment with CI/CD tools
- Experience with Git/Bitbucket Server, Jenkins, and uDeploy
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment
- Experience creating and maintaining test plans and test cases from business requirements
- Experience working as part of an SDET automation team and building reusable artifacts
- Experience with Sonar code quality or coverage tools
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
