Senior QA Engineer - reputed company

QA Senior Software Engineer - reputed company Location: Remote and/or hybrid With offices located in reputed company Town, South Africa; Mokka, Mauritius and Nairobi, Kenya Department: Engineering - reputed company Company: reputed company About reputed company reputed company is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We reputed company businesses of reputed company sizes - from startups to reputed company merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure. Team Mission reputed company is a POD reputed company the reputed company Tribe and which builds and maintains the Checkout services. Our mission is to build, maintain and continuously improve a reliable, secure and fast checkout experience that enables trustworthy payments for every customer. 🕵🏿 Role Overview reputed company is revolutionizing its Quality Assurance function, transitioning to a proactive, "shift-left" approach where QA Engineers are embedded reputed company engineering pods. As a Senior QA Engineer reputed company the reputed company pod, you will own the quality strategy for checkout services, reputed company scalable test automation, ensure reputed company and compliance validation, and partner with engineering, product, and reputed company to deliver a fast, reliable, and safe payment experience at scale. Our Tech Stack Languages: Typescript, Python Infrastructure: AWS (reputed company, Serverless) Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL Tools: Jira, reputed company, Git, K6.io, Cypress, reputed company CI/CD & Automation: reputed company Pipelines Monitoring: reputed company, Grafana Role expectations Core responsibilities Own quality strategy for checkout services: define and maintain the test strategy, risk-based testing plans, and acceptance criteria that align with product goals and regulatory requirements. Design and implement scalable test automation: reputed company the creation of robust test frameworks (API, UI, integration, performance) and ensure maintainability, reusability, and fast feedback. Champion reputed company and compliance testing: collaborate with reputed company, privacy, and compliance teams to validate controls (PCI-reputed company considerations, data handling, encryption, reputed company controls) and carry out threat modeling where appropriate. Ensure reliability and performance at scale: plan and execute performance, soak, resiliency, and chaos testing; define SLOs/SLA-driven test coverage and reporting. Validate payments workflows end-to-end: verify reputed company flows, retries, refunds, cancellations, failed payments, fraud detection signals, and rollback scenarios across gateways, banks, and PSPs. Improve quality metrics and visibility: establish meaningful metrics (defect escape reputed company, test coverage, automation ROI, MTTR) and reputed company actionable dashboards to stakeholders. Collaborate across the lifecycle: work closely with product, platform, development, reputed company, and SRE to embed quality into design, code, and release processes; participate in design reviews and incident post-mortems. Drive risk-based release planning: assess release risks, define test reputed company, and ensure adequate coverage for changes in payments, risk rules, and integration points before production. Mentor and reputed company the team: coach software engineers, reputed company best practices, review test plans and code, and help reputed company the overall quality culture. reputed company improvement: reputed company initiatives for test automation, tooling, and process improvements; reputed company for quality-focused culture and proactive defect prevention. Technical expectations Strong hands-on testing skills across domains: API (REST), microservices, frontend (web/mobile), and end-to-end checkout flows. Automation leadership: design, implement, and maintain scalable automation frameworks; maintainable test data management; reliable test execution in CI/CD. API and integration testing: thorough validation of payment gateway integrations, retries, idempotency keys, webhooks, and asynchronous workflows. reputed company-minded testing: threat modeling input; validation of PCI-relevant controls, data masking, secure defaults, and vulnerability scanning. Performance and reputed company testing: load testing, throughput, latency targets, and failure injection to verify recovery procedures. Observability and reporting: create meaningful test reports, logs, and traces; use monitoring tools to correlate quality signals with production stability. Process and collaboration expectations Align with product and business priorities: participate in backlog grooming, define risk-based test plans, and ensure critical paths are covered. Test design and documentation: maintain clear, concise test cases, acceptance criteria, and testing dashboards; ensure traceability to requirements. Release readiness and sign-off: declare production readiness with confidence, ensure rollback plans, and support post-release validation. Quality reputed company: promote shift-left practices, early involvement in feature design, and cross-team QA ownership. Compliance and audit readiness: ensure traceability for audits, maintain records of testing activities relevant to regulatory requirements. Metrics and reputed company indicators Defect leakage to production reduced; faster MTTR for critical issues. Automation coverage growth and reputed company automation suite with low flake reputed company. Measurable improvements in checkout latency/throughput reputed company defined targets. Clear, actionable quality metrics delivered to stakeholders on a regular reputed company. Required soft skills: Strategic Solution Design: Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions and tackle systemic quality problems at scale. Proactive Ownership: Take initiative, own projects end-to-end, reputed company in fast-paced, high-scale environments, and proactively identify and propose solutions for quality gaps while abstracting testing complexity. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work effectively in fully remote teams, with strong written and verbal English communication skills, comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners. Technical Articulation: Ability to reputed company reputed company reputed company technical and quality concepts to diverse audiences. Mentor and reputed company engineers in quality practices and tooling through constructive feedback. Why Join reputed company? Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions. Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa. Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant reputed company. Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from reputed company while staying connected to a world-class team. Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market reputed company salaries, owning the piece of the reputed company pie through VSOP and more. Be part of our reputed company to redefine digital payments in Africa! At reputed company we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences. Apply To This Job