About the role
Youll be the quality owner for mobile, web, and backend user journeys turning product requirements into crisp test scenarios, executing deep exploratory tests, validating data flows (APIs + events), and keeping releases ship-ready in a fast-moving fintech environment.
What youll do
- Translate PRDs/user stories into risk-based test plans, test cases, and checklists; maintain coverage maps for features and regressions.
- Execute functional, regression, smoke, usability, and exploratory testing across Flutter, React Native, and Web apps on real devices/emulators and multiple browsers.
- Validate APIs and event flows for Go microservices: request/response correctness, auth/roles, idempotency, retries, and Kafka consumer-producer behaviors (ordering, DLQs).
- Perform data validation in PostgreSQL/DynamoDB; verify caches in Redis; sanity-check S3/artifact links where relevant.
- Own release readiness: test runs, sign-offs, sanity on staging/pre-prod, hotfix verification, and post-release monitoring.
- Use observability tools (logs/metrics/traces in CloudWatch / Grafana / OpenTelemetry) to triage defects and provide high-signal bug reports.
- Conduct payments & fintech flows testing (KYC, OTP, subscription/renewals, refunds, recon), including edge/negative cases and network variability.
- Manage test data (synthetic/masked), environments, and device/browser matrix; track defects in Jira and drive bug triage with engineering/PM.
- Leverage GenAI (Copilot/OpenAI or similar) to draft test scenarios, generate boundary cases, summarize logs, and convert requirements to Gherkin while protecting PII.
- Contribute to acceptance criteria (Given/When/Then), regression suite upkeep, and lightweight smoke checks in CI (even if authored by automation peers).
Must-have skills
- Strong manual testing across mobile + web + API; excellent exploratory testing instincts and defect isolation.
- API testing with Postman/Newman; comfort with JSON, HTTP, auth flows, headers/cookies, and schema diffs.
- Mobile testing: real devices/emulators, deep links, push notifications, permissions, app upgrades, and crash triage (Crashlytics/Instabug).
- Web testing: multi-browser sanity (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit), responsive layouts, cookies/storage, and feature flags.
- Data & tools: SQL for Postgres, basics of DynamoDB queries, reading Kafka messages, and validating Redis keys/TTL.
- Debugging toolkit: Charles/Proxyman/Fiddler, browser devtools, adb/xcode tools, log scraping (CloudWatch/Kibana), and network throttling.
- Process: Jira + TestRail/Zephyr, clear bug reports (STR, actual vs expected, env, logs, attachments), and versioned test assets.
- Security & compliance awareness: PCI-DSS basics, PII handling, data masking, and session/auth testing.
- Comfortable using GenAI safely to speed up test design and failure summaries (prompt hygiene, no sensitive data in prompts).
Nice to have
- Gherkin/BDD exposure; writing acceptance tests alongside PM/Dev.
- Basic performance smoke testing (k6/Locust) and accessibility checks (WCAG basics).
- Familiarity with contract testing concepts and CI quality gates.
- Understanding of Kafka patterns (exactly-once semantics, consumer lag, retries) and how they impact testing.
- How well measure success
- High-priority defects caught pre-prod; defect leakage trending down.
- Clear coverage maps per feature; fast, reliable regression cycles.
- Actionable bug reports with logs/har files/screens that cut developer MTTR.
- Release cadence maintained with zero P0/P1 post-release on owned areas.
Qualifications
- 3 4 years in Manual QA for consumer/mobile-first products (fintech a plus).
- Hands-on across mobile, web, and API test cycles in agile teams.
- Strong written/spoken communication; crisp documentation and ownership mindset.
- Tools youll likely use
- Jira, TestRail/Zephyr, Postman/Newman, Charles/Proxyman/Fiddler, BrowserStack/Firebase Test Lab, Crashlytics/Instabug, CloudWatch/Grafana, Git basics, OpenAI/Copilot for test productivity.
