Lead QA Engineer

About Finfare:

Finfare is dedicated to empowering SMBs, by providing the ultimate expense management solution for growing businesses seeking to streamline their financial operations and maximize cash back rewards. Finfare offers easy expense tracking, personalized spend controls, seamless accounting integration, powerful analytics, and reliable charge card services. Our cardholders can tap into our vast network of reward program publishers and card-linked merchant offers, ensuring even bigger cash back rewards for their business.

We are always working on redefining the boundaries of digital financial services and aim to stay one step ahead in the ever-evolving fintech landscape.

About the team:

The Finfare team is a diverse group of world-class minds working together to reimagine and develop the future of intelligent payment systems. Our culture rewards collaboration, ideas, questions, and hard work. We believe in an inclusive and supportive work culture that provides team members with the opportunity to make a direct impact to the long-term vision while providing the tools needed to thrive in a fast-paced, energetic environment

Position Overview

As the QA Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the quality assurance processes and team members within the organization. This role requires a deep understanding of software development methodologies, testing frameworks, and the ability to lead and mentor a team of QA engineers both onsite and offshore. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products that meet customer expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers to foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Provide guidance on testing methodologies and best practices to ensure continuous improvement.Collaborate with product, development, DevOps, UI/UX design, and other stakeholders to define comprehensive test plans.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and test automation scripts based on project requirements and specifications.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies for automated testing
• Create test automation code/script to perform cloud API tests
• Create test frameworks for automated UI and BE testing
• Integration, E2E testing
• Investigate test failures and determine root cause
• Proactively identify areas of process improvement and implement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness.
• Other job duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a QA engineer with at least 2 years in a leadership or lead role
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and resourceful with excellent analytical skills
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies and processes
• Experience with test automation
• BSc/BA or above in Computer Science or a related field
• Understanding RestApi and microservices architectures
• Experience with Mock data and sandboxes
• Experience with DDT (data driven tests) and BDD (behavior-driver development)
• Solid skills with SQL, Git, Docker, Jenkins
• Advanced Python
• Experience with Python Fixtures and Parametrization
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with both manual and automated testing, including the design and implementation of test automation framework based on Selenium, PyTest, and Appium.
• Solid understanding of agile development methodologies and familiarity with CI/CD processes

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $90K- $135K (Depending on experience)

Benefits at Finfare

• Competitive health, vision, and dental benefits (covering 100% premium for employee and all dependent(s))
• Unlimited PTO 
• 401K (with employer matching) 
• Catered lunches three times a week
• Employee stock purchase plan (if applicable) 
• Hybrid or on-site, depending on the role.
• Work sponsorship (if applicable)
• Parental leave 
• Other employee perks

Physical Demands

• This is sedentary work which requires the following physical activities: reaching, sitting, lifting (≤25 pounds), finger dexterity, grasping, feeling, repetitive motions, talking, hearing and visual acuity.

Work Environment

• Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.
• Somewhat quiet but can be boisterous at times.
• Attire is business casual.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Finfare is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.