Rothera
Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist (UK)
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Building markets for the new trading frontier.
Bringing the future into focus.
Rothera is building the premier prediction market in partnership with Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group. By empowering traders to take positions on the events that shape our world, Rothera’s platform harnesses the scale and power of financial markets to produce timely, unique, and effective information discovery for leaders and decision makers to ask and answer their most important questions. Rothera operates at the frontier, generating market-driven forecasts that turn intuition into insight.
About the Role
The Frontend Quality Assurance Specialist serves as a key technical contributor, driving quality for Rothera’s instrument management systems. You will perform hands-on manual testing of internal and customer-facing user interfaces, implementing comprehensive front-end automation testing and extending the QA automation framework to ensure seamless orchestration of instrument listings and settlement instructions. You are a detail-oriented engineer who works closely with Product and Engineering to enforce rigorous quality standards across our core financial technology.
This role is central to delivering a reliable, high-performance platform essential for our CFTC Regulated Exchange and Clearing business.
What You’ll Do
Manual & Exploratory Testing
- Execute manual testing for the Instrument Management, Exchange, and Clearing platform user interfaces, validating UI/UX responsiveness, accessibility, and critical user workflows.
- Design and maintain comprehensive test cases for administrative and operations interfaces, ensuring functional correctness and edge-case coverage.
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Front-End & Back-End Automation
- Build and maintain the front-end automation suite (Playwright) to ensure regression stability across modern web interfaces.
- Develop back-end automation to rigorously validate Admin and Customer-facing API endpoints of REST and Websocket.
- Develop back-end end-to-end testing to validate critical system workflows.
- Integrate automated test suites into the CI/CD pipeline to enable rapid, reliable deployment cycles.
Quality Strategy & Reporting
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define and enforce rigorous quality standards.
- Monitor test platform system performance, data integrity, and security compliance to ensure the platform meets the demands of a high-stakes regulated exchange.
What You’ll Bring
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in a quality assurance or software testing role, preferably within financial services.
- Experience with testing tools such as Cucumber, Playwright, and JUnit and familiar with test reporting and analysis.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, FIX, SQL.
- Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets is preferred.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
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Benefits & Compensation
This position has a generous base salary per year, plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus program. Rothera is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.
Why you should join the mission
If you want a critical role in a path-breaking company, you belong here. Rothera values initiative from individuals of all backgrounds. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
This is a full-time, in-person hybrid position. This position is not available for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the UK on a permanent, indefinite basis.
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