Charlie is hiring a
QA Engineer, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a QA Engineer at Charlie, a startup building a bank for tech-comfortable retirees. The role involves creating a simple banking experience, collaborating with the tech team to build new systems, and maintaining existing ones. The candidate should have at least 6 years of end-to-end testing experience and preferably 2 years in neobanking or FinTech.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in complete end-to-end testing lifecycle including testing the products existing and new features, automating test cases, reporting bugs, and manual testing
• At least 2 year of experience working in a neobank, FinTech, or financial services such as banking, capital markets, investment management, or economic consulting
• Domain knowledge in banking and finance
• Fluent in at least one major programming language and would be able to switch between multiple languages. In our stack, we mainly use Java or Javascript/Typescript

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to thoroughly test consumer-facing and internal applications
• Identify and document software defects and communicate them to the development team
• Perform regression testing to ensure that previously identified issues have been resolved
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and understand project features and requirements, and review technical designs
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing processes and tools
• Monitor and track defects throughout the testing process and ensure their resolution
• Develop quality metrics and use data to drive actions and decisions
• Provide feedback and recommendations to improve software usability and functionality

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with functional and non-functional testing types and elaborate and estimate test efforts; understand how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
• Proven track record in testing large-scale web and mobile frontend apps end-to-end
• Experience in testing backend APIs
• Expertise in database testing including designing and manipulating test data
• Experience testing accessible (ADA-compliant) responsive web interfaces is a bonus
• Experience with Agile development incorporating CI/CD, utilizing technologies such as Jira, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, and PowerMock, and using TestNG, JUnit is highly desirable
• Experience planning, building, and orchestrating software testing frameworks and device test automation using Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Robotium, Appium, or similar tools is a plus
• Ability to deep dive into logs to troubleshoot errors and look at the entire process holistically to identify areas for improvement
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills along with agility in working with a variety of individuals and groups, both in-person and virtually with remote team members that are geographically spread across the world. Being a team player who respects diversity and a multitude of cultures on the team is a must

Benefits

• Equity ownership
• Competitive compensation
• Medical, vision and dental coverage (US employees)
• 401k with company match (US employees)
• Three weeks of annual vacation after the first year of employment. Two weeks during the first year
• 8 observed US holidays