Senior QA Engineer

Summary

Join Tala, a company on a mission to empower the financially underserved, and become a vital member of our growing team. Work in a collaborative environment alongside top product managers and engineers to create innovative financial products. You will participate in product grooming sessions, review product specifications, and execute test plans to ensure a seamless user experience. Your responsibilities include filing detailed bug reports and conducting thorough testing across various environments. This role requires 4-6 years of QA experience, strong programming skills, and experience with Agile methodologies. Tala offers a remote-first work environment and a diverse, inclusive culture.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of QA methodologies, automated testing tools and test strategies
• Strong programming and scripting skills
• Experience as a quality assurance analyst, software tester, or functional tester conducting manual testing of web and mobile products
• Experience in writing comprehensive test cases aligned with product requirements
• Experience with Agile software development methodology using scrum, sprints, and JIRA
• Working knowledge of technical concepts including programming, logic, databases, SQL queries, data distributed across multiple systems, etc

Responsibilities

• Work in a hands-on, collaborative environment with top product managers and engineers to build breakthrough experiences and products that solve our users’ most critical needs
• Participate in product grooming sessions with product managers and engineers to understand product goals, features, details, etc
• Review product specifications (including requirements, flowcharts, designs, etc.) in order to prepare test plans and test scenarios
• Manually execute test plans, scenarios, and cases to ensure the customer experience matches defined product specs
• File clear and concise bug tickets to help engineers fix product defects and issues
• Play a critical role in all releases by conducting regression and smoke tests in Staging and Production environments