Head of Software Development Engineer for Test (Cross Asset)
IEX is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to scale and lead a best-in-class testing and automation program across our equities and options exchanges. Our QA function has grown quickly to support expanding product and platform capabilities. While we've made progress, much of our testing remains manual or partially automated, and our tooling and environments are not yet standardized across asset classes. We are looking for a leader who can unify and elevate our approach — driving a scalable, multi-asset testing strategy that supports continued growth.
This role will own the end-to-end QA strategy across equities and options, modernize our automation framework, and establish a robust regression environment capable of supporting highly available, production-grade systems. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Market Operations, and Data teams, and play a critical role in improving reliability, efficiency, and release confidence across the organization.
Key responsibilities include owning and executing the vision for a unified, cross-asset QA and automation strategy across equities and options, leading the build-out and standardization of a scalable test harness that can be leveraged across both asset classes, driving the organization from a partially automated environment toward a mature, automation-first testing model, establishing and enforcing a comprehensive regression testing framework, evaluating and evolving current tooling, ensuring QA environments mirror production in strength and resiliency, partnering with Engineering and Product to translate requirements into robust automated and manual test coverage, leveraging modern tools, including AI-assisted testing approaches, to improve efficiency and coverage, unifying and scaling a QA team currently split across asset classes into a cohesive, high-performing organization, acting as a change agent, and mentoring and developing existing QA leads and managers.
The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering, direct experience supporting equities and options trading systems (experience strongly preferred), a proven track record implementing or significantly upgrading a testing automation program in a regulated, low-latency environment, experience building or leading development of a test harness (in-house or third-party) at scale, demonstrated success driving organizations from manual or partially automated testing to robust automation and regression frameworks, strong understanding of exchange, trading platform, or market infrastructure environments, proficiency working with Java and C-based applications; familiarity with KDB is a plus, experience managing QA teams (ideally 15–30+ people), including multi-site or hybrid teams, ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership, and a change agent mentality.
The starting annual base pay is between $275,000 and $300,000 for this NY-based position. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. This role is eligible for bonus and equity. Additional benefits include comprehensive benefits, new hire stock equity (RSUs), 401K employer match, unlimited PTO, 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision, OneMedical membership, 16 weeks parental leave, wellness benefits, flexible workplace, employer charity match, learning stipend, and commuter benefits.
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