Senior Quality Engineer

Company

Payfare is a global financial technology company powering digital banking and instant payout solutions for today’s workforce. Payfare partners with major platforms (Lyft, DoorDash, Uber and more) in the on-demand gig economy to drive financial inclusion and empowerment for next-generation workers.

Payfare’s suite of products include Payfare branded and co-branded Mobile Banking apps and a debit/prepaid card that allows gig workers to get paid instantly, earn cashback rewards and get access to no-fee banking. Based on a microservice architecture, Payfare’s core platform has proven capabilities of processing high volumes of payments.

Job Overview

We are looking for a curious, details-oriented Senior Quality Engineer who is skilled in both manual and automated testing. You will join the team and help expand our testing regimen, ensuring that every corner of the application is covered with the most thorough test runs known to man, woman or beast, while simultaneously maintaining the responsiveness.

We use tools like Jira, Xray, Jenkins, Postman, Xcode, Android Studio, TestFlight, Kibana, Appium, Rundeck, TDD/BDD Test Automation, Pytest, Cypress, Cucumber-Java Testing Frameworks. We believe in evaluating better technologies in order to continuously improve our testing efficiency and coverage. While we value expertise with the tools above, we know that smart QEs are great learners as well.

Quality Engineering is an integral part of the product-development team and closely involved in every step along the way - from ideation of the project, during implementation, and to the final deployment. Assuring the quality of our product is a heavy responsibility. Our development team builds in rapid iterations and our QE team needs to respond to that.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be working in a cross functional team of designers, developers, product and project managers to build a world class banking product focused on the next generation workers.

Reports to

Quality Engineering Manager

Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsible for in-sprint manual and automation testing of the scheduled releases and maintaining the regression suite.
• Work closely with the product and development team to meet the requirements for functional, regression and sanity testing
• Assess the reports generated after automated scripts execution and identify bugs
• Familiar with reporting bugs on Jira and defect lifecycle management
• Write APIs automated tests and DB validations using Python in the pytest framework
• Responsible for managing the Jira board from opening to completion of tasks and target to meet the deadline of the project
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation on Confluence
• Communicate project status and discuss release plan with their Manager
• Creation of test plans, test strategies, test cycles and test cases using BDD Gherkin language

Qualifications and Skills

• 6+ years of functional and automation testing experience in native iOS and android mobile applications
• 2+ years of experience of working with Android Studio and Xcode.
• Experience working with Postman and API Testing (manual + automation)
• Good understanding of source code management and version control systems like GitHub, SourceTree.
• Strong grasp of testing methodologies for all types of testing - Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, White box, and Black box testing
• Experience working with atlassian products like Jira, Xray and Confluence
• Experience in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, and Javascript
• Experience with BDD Test Framework and the Gherkin scripting language
• Experience in working closely with the software development and product team in an agile environment
• Time management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and function in a fast paced and flexible environment
• Experienced in release cycle management in an agile environment
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial
• Detail oriented with superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous
• Experience in handling multiple projects at the same time in a fast paced environment
• Experience and knowledge in the Fintech industry is an asset

Nice to have

• Hands on experience with BDD Test Framework and Selenium
• 1-2 years prior experience managing a team of Quality Engineers
• Knowledge of Kibana, Rundeck, AWS.
• Experience with SauceLabs/ Browserstack is an asset
• Experience and knowledge in the Fintech industry is an asset

Equal Opportunity

Payfare Inc. recognizes the importance of providing an accessible and barrier free environment to succeed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workforce where all employees are valued and respected. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.