Quality Assurance Leader - Cloud Platform

Summary

Join dLocal's Cloud Platform department as a QA Lead to establish and drive a centralized QA function. You will define testing strategies, quality standards, and engineering excellence practices. This hands-on role requires building custom test frameworks and tools, fostering cross-team collaboration, and working with SREs and Security teams. You will own E2E test case management tools, develop test automation pipelines, and influence cross-team quality practices. The role also includes recruiting, managing, and mentoring a high-impact QA team and staying ahead of industry trends. dLocal offers a flexible, remote-first culture with various benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Engineering roles, with at least 2 in a technical or people leadership position
• Strong background in testing distributed systems, cloud-native applications, or platform tools
• Proficiency with automated testing frameworks on multiple languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar)
• Experience integrating quality into DevOps and SRE practices (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, Alerts)
• Metrics-driven mindset – measure before build
• Strong communication and collaboration skills – you’ll influence and support engineers across multiple verticals, including the development of your teammates
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed environments
• Fluent English is a must

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a centralized QA team focused on driving platform-wide quality practices and capabilities
• Redefine and monitor key quality KPIs, including, but not limited to Change Failure Rate (CFR), Escaped Defect Rate, and Deployment Validation Time
• Own, maintain and develop our E2E test case management tools
• Design, develop, and maintain custom test frameworks, reusable tooling, and test automation pipelines
• Influence cross-team quality practices by driving adoption of shared tools, code standards, and documentation
• Support incident reviews and reliability assessments with a quality-first mindset
• Influence a culture of accountability, observability, and resilience through test coverage and continuous verification
• Recruit, manage, mentor and inspire a high-impact QA Team
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our QA practices remain cutting-edge

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud experience, especially AWS and EKS (Kubernetes) based workloads
• Performance monitoring experience, particularly in large-scale distributed environments

Benefits

• Remote work: work from anywhere or one of our offices around the globe!*
• Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance
• Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity
• Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded
• Learning & development: get access to a Premium Coursera subscription
• Language classes: we provide free English, Spanish, or Portuguese classes
• Social budget: you'll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
• DLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team? We’ve got your back!