Senior QA Engineer, Platform

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Altruist</strong></span></p> <p>Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.</p> <p>We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>But first, our values</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Kindness</strong> - Kindness doesn’t <em>just</em> equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.<br><br><strong>Brilliance</strong> - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.<br><br><strong>Grit</strong> - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.</p></div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The opportunity</strong></span></p> <p>Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire a Senior QA Engineer to join our growing Platform team.</p> <p>The Platform team builds the shared backend services and infrastructure that every product team at Altruist depends on. That makes quality here a different problem: there is rarely a screen to click through, the consumers of what you test are other engineering teams, and a defect that escapes doesn't affect one feature — it affects everything built on top of it.</p> <p>In this role you'll own quality for distributed backend services, working at the API, contract, event, and data layers. You'll build durable automation that gives product teams confidence to move quickly, and you'll partner with Platform engineers to make services testable by design rather than verified after the fact. This is a hands-on role for someone who is genuinely comfortable in the backend and wants their testing to have leverage across the whole organization.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Your impact</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end functional testing for Platform services across API, event, and database layers</li> <li>Design and validate contracts between services, catching breaking changes before downstream product teams ever see them</li> <li>Build and maintain test automation frameworks in Java using REST Assured and Postman for API coverage, extending to Playwright or Selenium where Platform capabilities surface in the UI</li> <li>Write SQL and data validation to verify that API behavior, event streams, and persisted state actually agree</li> <li>Verify security fixes and cover the authentication/authorization paths</li> <li>Detect configuration drift across environments</li> <li>Test asynchronous and event-driven flows, including retries, idempotency, ordering, and failure recovery</li> <li>Integrate automated test suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines s