QA Engineer
On-siteBelize, Cabinda, Angola
Belize, Cabinda, AngolaOn-siteFull TimeMid LevelSmall
Full TimeMid LevelSmall
Job Summary
Translate product requirements into test plans and execute end-to-end testing for critical fintech workflows including onboarding, KYC, payments, and reconciliation. Build and maintain automated UI and API tests to increase coverage and improve release confidence. Partner with engineering to shift quality left, triage defects with clear reproduction steps, and validate data integrity across ledgers and reports. Support audit and compliance needs by ensuring traceability to requirements and validating secure handling of PII. Use logs and metrics to troubleshoot production issues and validate mitigations during incident follow-ups.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Education Required: Quality Assurance Associate degree or Engineer Bachelors degree
Desired Qualifications
- 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)
- Environments: Docker, Kubernetes (nice to have)
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