Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role:

We’re hiring a Staff QA Lead, to elevate the quality bar across our product and engineering organization. This is a foundational role as the first dedicated QA hire, offering the opportunity to shape tools, processes, and testing strategy from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement automated test frameworks
• Define and execute mobile testing strategies
• Expand test coverage across API, end-to-end, load, and security testing
• Integrate testing into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams
• Own quality gates and testing domains

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software quality engineering
• Experience building QA systems from scratch
• Expertise in PHP and Laravel (Pest/PHP Unit)
• Experience with AI tools (LLMs, AI IDEs)
• Strong frontend and backend testing experience (Vue, Cypress, Playwright)
• CI/CD and DevOps familiarity (GCP, GitLab)
• Mobile testing experience (iOS & Android)
• Knowledge of fintech compliance (PCI DSS)
• Mentorship and leadership experience
• Strong communication and strategic thinking

Bonus Skills:

• Custom tooling/plugins for IDEs
• Agentic QA workflows
• Advanced Laravel testing tools (Laravel Dusk)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Performance testing (k6, Locust)
• Open-source contributions

What You’ll Own:

• Self-service testing infrastructure
• AI-driven automation
• Full-stack testing frameworks
• Quality gates in deployment pipelines
• Mobile QA strategy
• Coaching engineering teams
• Staging and performance optimization
• Compliance and security validation
• Quality metrics (MTTR, Change Failure Rate)
• Continuous QA innovation