QA Lead

We are looking for a QA Lead to own and evolve the quality assurance function across our fintech products and engineering teams.
You will be responsible not only for testing, but for building a scalable quality strategy: defining QA processes, improving automation, introducing quality gates, coordinating testing across services and platforms, and ensuring that releases are predictable, stable, and production-ready.
Our platform includes mobile applications, web applications, third-party integrations, payment flows, KYC/KYB, card processing, crypto operations, and other financial services.

Responsibilities
Own the overall QA strategy, processes, standards, and best practices across the engineering organization.
Lead and mentor QA engineers, define areas of responsibility, and help the team grow technically.
Define and continuously improve the testing approach for backend, web, mobile, and integration-heavy systems.
Establish clear quality gates for development, CI/CD, release, and production deployment.
Build and maintain a balanced test strategy covering:API and integration testing;
end-to-end testing;
regression testing;
mobile application testing;
web application testing;
performance and reliability testing;
security-related testing where applicable.

Drive test automation and reduce dependency on repetitive manual regression testing.
Review requirements and technical designs early in the development lifecycle to identify gaps, risks, and test scenarios before implementation starts.
Work closely with developers, architects, product managers, business analysts, DevOps, and security teams.
Coordinate testing of integrations with external providers, including payment, banking, KYC, AML, card-processing, and other third-party systems.
Define release-readiness criteria and participate in Go/No-Go decisions.
Establish defect management processes, severity/prioritization rules, RCA practices, and quality metrics.
Track and improve key QA metrics such as escaped defects, regression stability, automation coverage, test execution time, and release quality.
Ensure critical business flows are properly covered and protected against regressions.
Participate in production incident analysis and convert incidents into additional tests, controls, or process improvements.
Improve test environments, test data management, mocks/stubs, and service virtualization where necessary.
Promote a quality-first engineering culture where responsibility for quality is shared across the entire development team.

We are looking for someone who sees QA as an engineering discipline rather than a final testing phase.
You should be comfortable challenging requirements, identifying architectural and operational risks, defining appropriate levels of test coverage, and deciding where automation provides the greatest value.
The goal is to build a QA function that enables teams to release faster while reducing production risk, rather than creating an additional approval bottleneck.
You will have significant influence over how quality engineering is implemented across the company and will work directly with engineering and product leadership.