QA Engineer

We’re hiring a mid-level QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and compliance-readiness of a fintech platform. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Security to validate user-critical financial workflows (e.g., onboarding/KYC, payments, loan servicing, account management, reporting) and to strengthen our testing practices across web services, APIs, and data flows.
This role is hands-on and balanced: you’ll execute thoughtful testing, increase automation coverage where it matters most, and help improve release confidence in a regulated environment.
What you’ll do
Test planning & execution
Translate product and technical requirements into clear test plans, test cases, and risk-based coverage.
Test end-to-end customer journeys, including key fintech flows such as:
onboarding, KYC/identity verification, account funding
payment processing and reconciliation
transaction history, statements, fees, interest, and schedule recalculations
role-based permissions and approvals
Perform functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing across web apps and APIs.
Validate edge cases that matter in fintech: rounding, currency formatting, time zones, retries, idempotency, partial failures, and chargebacks/disputes (where applicable).
Test automation (pragmatic and high impact)
Build and maintain automated tests at the right level (UI, API, integration), focusing on high-value regression areas.
Contribute to automation frameworks and CI integration to support fast feedback and stable releases.
Improve test data management and automation reliability (flaky test reduction, deterministic assertions).
Quality practices & release readiness
Partner with engineers during design and development to shift quality left (early reviews, acceptance criteria, testability improvements).
Define and run release validation (pre-release checklists, smoke test suites, deployment verification).
Triage defects with actionable reproduction steps, logs, and impact analysis; verify fixes and prevent regressions.
Data integrity, auditability & compliance support
Validate data correctness across services and systems (ledger-like accuracy, reconciliation consistency, reporting alignment).
Support audit and compliance needs (evidence of testing, traceability to requirements, controlled change processes).
Work with Security/Compliance teams to validate:
access controls and least-privilege behavior
secure handling of PII (masking, retention, logging hygiene)
encryption-in-transit expectations and session management behaviors
Observability & production quality
Use logs, metrics, traces, and monitoring to validate production behavior and troubleshoot issues.
Support incident follow-ups by helping reproduce customer-impacting bugs and validating mitigations.
What we’re looking for (required)
3–6 years of QA / Software Testing experience in a product environment.
Strong understanding of testing fundamentals: test strategy, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle, and regression planning.
Experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools like Postman, Insomnia, or similar; ability to validate responses and data integrity.
Working knowledge of SQL and ability to validate data at rest (queries for verification, reconciliation checks).
Experience contributing to test automation (any of: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebDriver IO; plus, API automation frameworks).
Comfortable working in Agile teams with CI/CD release cycles and collaborating with engineers and product stakeholders.
Strong communication: clear bug reports, test summaries, and status updates.
Nice to have (strong plus in fintech)
Experience in regulated environments and/or supporting audits (SOC 2, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO 27001).
Familiarity with fintech domains: payments, card processing, lending, banking integrations, reconciliation/ledger concepts.
Experience testing event-driven or distributed systems (queues, retries, idempotency keys, eventual consistency).
Performance and reliability testing experience (k6, JMeter, Gatling) and understanding of SLAs/SLOs.
Experience with security testing basics: OWASP Top 10 awareness, authentication/authorization test scenarios, PII handling validation.
Experience with test management and traceability tools (Jira, Xray, TestRail, Zephyr).
Tech stack
Test automation: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium
API testing: Postman / REST-assured / Playwright API / SuperTest / Cursor AI Agnet
CI/CD: Bit bucket Jenkins
Defect tracking: Jira
Data: PostgreSQL/MySQL + SQL
Observability: Datadog / Kibana / Grafana / CloudWatch
Environments: Docker, Kubernetes (nice to have)
What success looks like (first 3–6 months)
Improved release confidence through stable smoke/regression coverage and meaningful automation additions.
Faster defect discovery with strong triage quality (clear repro steps, reduced “can’t reproduce”).
Reduced production defects in high-risk flows (payments, reconciliations, schedules/calculations, permissions).
Better test documentation and traceability appropriate for audits and compliance expectations.
Strong cross-functional partnership with engineering, product, and security.
Education Required:
Quality Assurance Associate degree or Engineer Bachelors degree

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No