[Hiring] Senior/Lead QA Engineer @SmartDev

Role Description

The Senior QA Engineer / QA Lead will own VeryPay's end-to-end quality strategy — leading the QA function, mentoring the team, and ensuring our platform meets the highest standards of correctness, reliability, and security before every release. This role combines hands-on technical depth with team leadership.

• Define the test architecture.
• Drive automation investment.
• Champion quality culture across engineering.
• Act as the primary quality voice in cross-functional discussions.

This role requires someone who can pair deep technical QA expertise with practical knowledge of AI-assisted testing workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software QA experience with proven ownership of both manual and automated testing on production-grade systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks: Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent.
• Expertise in API testing (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or Karate.
• Experience designing test strategies for microservices architectures, including contract testing (Pact or equivalent) and service mesh validation.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java, for test framework development.
• Hands-on experience with at least one AI-assisted testing or development tool (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Testim, Mabl, Applitools, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to use LLMs (e.g., Claude, GPT-4) to generate test plans, identify edge cases, and review test coverage against specifications.
• Understanding of where AI augmentation is appropriate in a QA workflow and where it must be restricted.
• Demonstrated experience leading or managing a QA team — setting direction, mentoring engineers, and owning quality outcomes end-to-end.
• Ability to define and evolve a QA strategy aligned with product roadmap and engineering capacity.
• Experience driving QA KPI frameworks: defect escape rate, automation coverage ratios, test flakiness reduction, and release confidence metrics.
• Proven track record of cross-functional influence.
• Fluency in Agile/Scrum environments with direct experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Design end-to-end test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test layers across web, mobile, and backend services.
• Build and maintain robust manual and automated test suites for NFC transaction flows, card lifecycle operations, wallet movements, and MMO integrations.
• Ensure test coverage spans microservice boundaries including contract and integration testing at API gateways.
• Design and execute multi-device test scenarios covering POS terminals, NFC card readers, mobile apps, and USSD channels.
• Validate multi-tenant isolation.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate test case generation and regression suite maintenance.
• Use AI-based log analysis and anomaly detection to proactively identify quality risks.
• Design prompts and workflows for AI-assisted exploratory testing.
• Stay current on evolving AI testing tooling.
• Test NFC card transaction authorization flows and validate double-entry ledger integrity.
• Perform security-focused testing on payment token flows and PCI-relevant data handling.
• Collaborate with the HSM and cryptographic infrastructure teams.
• Serve as the QA point of contact for production incidents.
• Maintain a structured hotfix verification workflow.
• Analyse production logs and monitoring dashboards.
• Maintain a living production issue register.
• Partner with product managers to translate feature requirements into testable specifications.
• Work directly with backend and frontend engineers during development cycles.
• Facilitate structured QA handoff processes.
• Maintain open communication channels with development and product teams.
• Own the overall QA strategy for VeryPay's platform.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a QA team.
• Drive test architecture decisions.
• Act as the QA representative in sprint planning and architecture reviews.
• Build a quality culture across the broader engineering team.
• Implement and maintain quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track QA KPIs.
• Own incident post-mortems from the quality perspective.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and integration partners.

Benefits

• Work on a technically challenging, real-world fintech platform.
• A team that treats quality engineering as first-class.
• Active investment in AI-augmented development workflows.
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and location.
• Flexible remote-first work environment with a collaborative culture.