Lead day-to-day testing operations in an Agile delivery team, developing testing strategies and mentoring team members while enhancing QA processes for a rapidly growing payments platform.
We are growing and looking for an experienced Quality Lead with a Software QA/QE background to join our Agile software development team. As part of a small, collaborative team, you'll be a subject matter expert with immediate impact on our fast-growing payments processing platform. If a cool, challenging work environment sounds appealing, you'll fit right in.
The Quality Lead oversees and actively participates in day-to-day embedded testing within the Agile Delivery team — balancing hands-on technical work with mentoring, workload delegation, and cross-team alignment. You'll partner closely with your manager to review and improve QA artifacts, tools, and strategies, while ensuring testing efforts across divisions are well-aligned and integrated into a comprehensive regression and performance suite.
Responsabilities
Leading and working alongside a team of Quality Engineers and SDETs
Driving the development and execution of test strategies across all phases of the development lifecycle (functional, regression, integration, and performance)
Developing automated tests, tools, and pipelines with emphasis on efficiency
Coaching and mentoring team members on quality methods and best practices
Supporting the Quality Manager in project management, stakeholder communication, and release reporting
Collaborating with product and development teams to understand requirements, troubleshoot failures, and ensure a great customer experience
Championing quality practices organization-wide and providing relevant quality metrics
Must have for this role
Experience: 5+ years in a fast-paced QA role with 5+ years in a lead capacity
Testing expertise: Deep knowledge across all testing phases (unit, functional, system, regression, load, UAT), the Test Pyramid, shift-left principles, and Web UI, API, and performance testing
Test planning & metrics: Proven ability to decompose requirements into test cases, establish metrics programs, and develop predictive quality reporting
Communication & risk: Ability to assess project risk, report test status clearly, and connect quality outcomes to broader business goals
Tools & environment: Experience with Jira, Agile (Scrum/Kanban), and TDD; JavaScript required; Postman and Cypress highly desired (or equivalent GUI/API tools)
Nice to have: Knowledge of DevOps principles and cloud infrastructure
Nice to have for this role
Fintech & compliance: Payments/ACH processing background, familiarity with NACHA and PCI compliance standards
DevOps & cloud: CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), AWS services (EC2, S3, SNS, Lambda), and microservices experience
Why join us
Work with an international, cross-disciplinary team on impactful products.
Freedom to shape QA strategy and automation architecture.
Flexible remote work with autonomy and ownership.
