Senior QA Engineer

Description

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join the Core Platform team as a senior QA engineer. This is a deliberately versatile role: rather than owning a single feature area, you will act as a trusted quality specialist we can deploy onto whatever is most critical at any given moment: the mission-critical, time-sensitive work that is difficult to plan for in advance and that we need handled with confidence and minimal ramp-up. Success depends first on mindset: genuine flexibility, sound judgement under pressure, and uncompromising attention to detail; and second on deep functional knowledge of our products across the Core Platform, Onboarding, Payments, PSP, Trading, Loyalty, and Operations.

Take ownership of whatever is most critical at a given time, often at short notice and with limited time to plan — moving quickly into a problem, understanding the risk, and driving it to a confident resolution.

Operate with the autonomy and judgement that let the team fully entrust mission-critical, time-sensitive work to you without close oversight.

Apply rigorous, non-negotiable attention to detail, surfacing the edge cases, subtle regressions, and quiet failure modes that others miss.

Build and continuously deepen functional expertise across all Core Platform domains including Onboarding, Payments, PSP, Trading, Loyalty, and Operations; understanding not just how each domain works but why it matters and where the real business and client risk sits, so testing effort is always aimed at what counts.

Act as a go-to reference on product behaviour and quality risk for engineering, product, and operations partners, working as an embedded team player across squads.

As a secondary focus, translate this domain expertise into a sharper automation strategy by critically vetting what is genuinely worth automating and pushing back on low-value coverage, so we test what actually matters with no fluff.

Partner with engineering to ensure automated coverage targets the highest-risk, business-critical paths rather than chasing coverage metrics for their own sake.

Provide hands-on test support across front-end and back-end changes, user workflows, performance, and security when needed.

Requirements

Essential:

1. Mindset and ways of working:

• Highly adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity, i.e. be able to switch focus and context at short notice and still deliver.
• Trustworthy and self-directed: can be handed mission-critical work and own it end to end.
• Uncompromising attention to detail. This is not optional for this role.
• A strong, collaborative team player who builds trust quickly across functions.
• Sound judgement under time pressure; calm and methodical when priorities shift.

2. Domain and functional expertise (primary requirement):

• Proven experience (5+ years) in QA or quality engineering, ideally on a trading app, brokerage, or comparable fintech product, so you arrive with relevant context rather than starting from scratch.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly build deep functional knowledge of complex products and become a credible subject-matter expert.
• Strong product thinking: able to reason about user workflows, business impact, and where quality risk actually lives.
• Experience testing across infrastructure (k8s), front-end (mobile or web), and back-end (API) surfaces.

3. Technical ability (secondary requirement):

• Ability to critically evaluate and help shape an automation strategy: you do not need to own the framework, but you must understand it well enough to challenge it intelligently.
• Working familiarity with a stack like ours: Go-based back-end services, a Flutter mobile front-end, RESTful APIs, and a micro-services architecture.
• Comfortable with test automation concepts and frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, issue tracking, version control, and SQL/NoSQL/Kafka data validation.
• Able to perform high-level impact analysis and define pragmatic test approaches for production and maintenance changes.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

4. Communication and working arrangement:

• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to explain quality risk clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Open to on-site (UAE) or remote candidates; remote applicants must be able to work core hours aligned with the UAE region.

Desirable:

• Experience working on a B2C trading or investing product.
• Exposure across multiple fintech domains (Payments, PSP, Onboarding, Trading, Loyalty, Operations).
• Experience in a regulated financial-services environment.