--- title: 'Platform Quality Engineer (SDET) at StarCompliance' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-quality-engineer-sdet-starcompliance-united-kingdom-a1n025vkrw17' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Platform Quality Engineer (SDET) at StarCompliance - **Company:** StarCompliance - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-02-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance/2bf7c725-2ed2-4d02-bece-219ca83cec80 ## Job description ## About StarCompliance StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency. ## Role The Platform Quality Engineer is a hands-on engineering role within StarCompliance’s centralised Platform Quality Engineering function, responsible for ensuring platform-level quality assurance across the enterprise SaaS platform. Reporting to the Lead Quality Architect, the Platform Quality Engineer contributes directly to the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated quality controls that validate cross-service integration, core enterprise user journeys, and non-functional platform characteristics. The role is focused primarily on integration and API-level testing across a distributed, cloud-native system, including asynchronous and event-driven workflows. StarCompliance’s enterprise platform is built on distributed services and cloud infrastructure, including messaging and integration components such as Azure Service Bus. The Platform Quality Engineer is expected to understand how these systems behave under load, failure, and recovery conditions, and how to test them to ensure reliability, resilience, and performance at scale. The role places strong emphasis on validating failure modes, resilience, and recovery behaviour across distributed services, diagnosing complex system failures using logs, telemetry, and test data, and contributing to enterprise performance testing. The Platform Quality Engineer works closely with Product Owners and engineering teams to understand upcoming platform changes and integrations, ensuring the enterprise platform is validated under realistic functional and load scenarios ahead of release ## Responsibilities - Design, implement, and maintain automated tests primarily at the integration and API layers to validate behaviour across distributed services. - Develop tests that validate asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including messaging, retries, ordering, and failure scenarios (e.g. Azure Service Bus–based integrations). - Contribute production-quality code to shared automation frameworks and quality tooling used across the enterprise platform. - Design and execute performance and scalability tests for the enterprise SaaS platform - Build and maintain performance test data, scenarios, and workloads that reflect real-world usage patterns, including message throughput and concurrency. - Integrate automated functional and performance tests into CI/CD pipelines, contributing to reliable, high-signal quality gates. - Support validation activities within the Staging environment as the primary platform integration and quality assurance layer - Analyse functional, integration, and performance test results to identify systemic platform risks and improvement opportunities. - Partner with Product Owners to understand upcoming platform changes and integrations, preparing targeted integration and performance tests in advance. - Collaborate with architecture, platform, and engineering teams to improve system testability, reliability, and observability. - Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate test creation, improve coverage, analyse failures, and reduce test flakiness. - Adhere to and contribute to quality standards, patterns, and engineering practices defined by the centralised Platform Quality Engineering function ## Skills and Experience - Demonstrable experience in platform- or enterprise-scale SaaS application quality assurance, with a focus on validating integration, non-functional characteristics, and release readiness across distributed systems. - Strong coding skills in one or more of C#, TypeScript, or Python, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code. - Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining automated tests at the integration and API layers for distributed, cloud-native systems. - Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and how to test them, including messaging, asynchronous processing, retries, ordering, and failure handling - Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems using cloud messaging or integration technologies (e.g. Azure Service Bus, Kafka, SNS/SQS, or similar). - Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools and approaches (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling, or similar). - Experience designing realistic performance test scenarios and generating representative test data, including load, concurrency, and message-driven workloads. - Practical experience integrating functional and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred). - Experience diagnosing complex system failures using logs, telemetry, and test data. - Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, test quality, or failure analysis. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason about system behaviour and failure modes in distributed environment ## Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), performance testing, or quality engineering are beneficial but not required. AI - At StarCompliance, we’re dedicated to leading the way in innovation by seamlessly integrating AI into our offerings. We encourage our team to fully embrace these advanced tools, empowering us to work more efficiently, create with greater precision, and deliver exceptional value to our clients. Integrity and Ethics - All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner ## About StarCompliance ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: StarCompliance provides employee and firm compliance software that helps regulated companies monitor conflicts of interest, meet regulatory obligations, and reduce risk. - **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-backed by Luminate Capital Partners; last known round: Venture, December 2020) - **Headquarters**: Rockville, Maryland, United States (with presence in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong; workforce distributed across 6 countries including the US, UK, India, UAE, and Germany) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest known milestone: 2017 Luminate Capital Partners investment) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / RegTech — employee compliance software for regulated institutions. - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise — the world’s most reputable companies, including broker-dealers, banks, and financial services firms, operating in 114 countries. - **Mission / purpose**: "Employee compliance software that protects the world’s most reputable companies against risk and costly conflicts of interest" — helping clients "comply with confidence" via a scalable, cloud-ready platform. ## Products & Services - **Employee Conflicts of Interest Suite**: A single platform covering personal trading activity, insider trading, private investments, gifts & entertainment spending, outside business activities, and political donations. - **STAR Mobile App**: Enables on-the-go personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts & entertainment submissions, with mobile review/approval for compliance officers and supervisors. - **Compliance Control Room**: Centralizes firm deal-related activity, surfaces critical data, and accelerates deal clearance through easier conflict searches. - **Crypto Dealing Monitoring**: Pre-clearance and post-trade oversight across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens (expanded via the acquisition of AER Compliance). - **Firm Trade Surveillance**: Automatically compares firm trades against watch lists and restricted lists to detect potential trading risks. - **Broker-Dealer Registration**: Registration offering with automated, two-way FINRA integration. - **Individual Accountability & Training & Competency**: Products supporting clients subject to Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). - **MNPI Management**: Centralizes material non-public information oversight with wall crossings, insider lists, and restricted lists. - **StarAssist**: AI-powered explainability capability that makes compliance decisions more transparent. - **Prediction Markets Monitoring**: Industry-first solution launched in partnership with Kalshi. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$35M (per LinkedIn company data); 1.35M clients supported (per company website) - **Funding History**: Private Equity Round (July 2017) led by Luminate Capital Partners; Venture Round (December 2020). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital Partners; technology integrations with Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI; partnership with Kalshi. - **Growth Signals**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention rate (per careers page); LinkedIn followers grew +63.8% year-over-year to ~15,167; aggressive hiring in AI, data, and engineering roles; product expansion into crypto and prediction markets monitoring; strategic acquisition of AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions including SixLambda (6L) and Ethix360. ## Competitive Advantages - **One connected platform**: Uniquely combines employee compliance and firm compliance in a single, real-time solution spanning activities, risks, and decisions. - **Multi-jurisdictional integrity**: Built for global, cross-border regulatory needs across 114 countries. - **AI-first, transparent compliance**: StarAssist provides AI-powered explainability — a differentiator in a risk-averse industry. - **First-mover in emerging asset classes**: Crypto coverage across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens; first-to-market Prediction Markets Monitoring with Kalshi. - **On-demand configurability and modern integrations**: Cloud-ready architecture with native connectivity to Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI. ## Strategic Focus - **Doubling down on AI**: Actively hiring a Head of Data and AI, Lead AI Engineer (Agentic Systems), and Senior AI Engineers — signaling a platform-wide push toward agentic and explainable AI. - **Expanding into new regulatory domains**: Prediction markets monitoring (via Kalshi), crypto dealing, and individual accountability/SMCR. - **Growing firm-wide compliance**: Moving beyond employee conflicts into firm trade surveillance and control room workflows. - **Post-acquisition integration**: Absorbing AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions (SixLambda, Ethix360) to broaden the suite. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a "fun, fast-moving environment where creativity is rewarded and hard work is valued," with a collaborative culture and values of dignity, trust, and respect. - **Work model**: Flexible work arrangements and hybrid roles; current UK engineering roles are hybrid in Leeds (AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer) and York (Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI); some remote-friendly UK roles (Head of Data and AI). - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, family-friendly policies, paid time off including bank/public holidays. - **Learning & development**: Varied learning programs and global "Star Seminars" to keep skills sharp. - **Employee ratings**: 4.1/5 on LinkedIn (155 reviews) — Work-Life Balance 4.2, Culture 4.2, Career 4.0, Compensation 3.7. - **Momentum**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention provide stability and career upside. ## Sources 1. [starcompliance.com — About Us](https://www.starcompliance.com/about-us/) 2. [starcompliance.com — Home](https://www.starcompliance.com/) 3. [jobs.lever.co — StarCompliance](https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance) 4. [starcompliance.com — Careers](https://www.starcompliance.com/careers/) 5. [linkedin.com — StarCompliance](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starcompliance) ## Other roles at StarCompliance - [AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/aws-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-starcompliance-leeds-9txqe87rba7c) — Leeds, United Kingdom - [Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-design-engineer-ux-ui-and-ai-starcompliance-york-d9r5r9hhn96f) — York, United Kingdom - [Quality Engineer (SDET)](https://feeny.ai/job/quality-engineer-sdet-starcompliance-united-kingdom-41khpye1an8d) — United Kingdom - [Head of Data and AI - UK Based](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-data-and-ai-uk-based-starcompliance-remote-9ag52hsm7eym)