Senior QA Engineer

Join Flywire, a leading fintech company, as a Senior QA Engineer. In this role, you will be part of a dedicated Quality Assurance team focused on improving engineering productivity and service quality. You will be responsible for risk-based testing, providing feedback on user stories, detecting and solving production issues, and driving feature design. You will also mentor team members, identify opportunities for process and tool improvement, and contribute to tech communities. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience in web application development or quality assurance, a background in FinTech, and fluency in English.

• Understand requirements and user stories as a whole for risk-based testing, provide feedback and add acceptance criteria to the stories if edge cases are not clear.
• Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns, investigate test failures in production, identify design flaws, and suggest potential solutions.
• Mentor team members and act as a lead on projects and new initiatives, identify opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team.
• We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. QA Engineer I ideally with a background in FinTech
• Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools
• Experience working on a mature software product where availability and performance are key
• Experience in code quality metrics and tools as well as building test automation frameworks
• Familiar with RESTful web service principles and using HTTP clients and tools like (Postman, Rest-assured, Playwright, and Wiremock)
• A passion for learning and contributing to the development of others
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery technology and practices as well as containerization technologies like Docker
• Experience in Student Information Systems or Financial ERP will be appreciated
• 4+ years of experience in web application development or quality assurance
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent
• Knowledge of the following programming languages: Javascript, Java and scripting skills in Shell
• Fluency in English, as it is the company’s working language
• Understanding of software quality principles and agile development practices
• Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• Must be based within Eastern Time Zone