Accordion

Senior Quality Engineer

Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco Full Time

Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. 

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer partners directly with delivery pods to validate software features, workflows, integrations, and releases. This impact role will be critical in executing and automating test coverage across traditional applications and AI-enabled solutions, with a focus on business-critical workflow quality and evidence-based release readiness.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You’ll Do:

Validation Execution

  • Design and execute functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end workflow tests
  • Build and maintain automated test cases where they create leverage and repeatability
  • Validate system behavior across application boundaries, services, and business processes

Release Readiness

  • Partner with Product and Engineering to clarify acceptance criteria, risk, and expected behavior
  • Provide quality assessments grounded in evidence, defect trends, and scenario coverage
  • Support pre-release validation and post-release quality review

AI Workflow Testing

  • Execute test scenarios against AI-enabled features, including edge cases, missing context, ambiguous requests, and workflow handoffs
  • Validate outputs against expected business behavior, traceability requirements, and quality standards

Continuous Improvement

  • Identify recurring defects, weak spots in requirements, and opportunities to improve test coverage
  • Contribute reusable test assets, documentation, and scenario libraries

You Have:

  • 5+ years of software testing or quality engineering experience
  • Experience with manual and automated testing in modern application environments
  • Strong comfort with APIs, integration testing, and complex workflow validation
  • Familiarity with logs, defect triage, and data validation
  • Experience with finance, workflow, or data-centric products preferred
  • Ability to work closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, balancing technical detail with business impact, finding edge cases and translating risk into action
  • Consistent commitment to protecting quality without becoming rigid – you are methodical, curious, and accountable
  • Bachelor's degree preferred

You Are:

  • Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
  • Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
  • Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
  • Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
  • Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
  • A self-starter with a strong work ethic
  • Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
  • Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
  • A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
  • Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
  • A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $120,000 to $150,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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