Senior QA Engineer Lead - Remote Position

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer Lead to join our team at Sertis, a leading Data and AI engineering company. This Senior QA Engineer Lead remote position is a senior, hands-on role that involves defining and driving quality engineering practices across our payments platform. You will design test architecture while actively contributing to automation and delivery, ensuring that systems are delivered with strong test coverage, stability, and performance in a high-transaction environment.

What You'll Do

• Define and lead test strategy and automation approach for our payments platform.
• Build and scale test automation frameworks to enhance system reliability.
• Ensure strong test coverage, including functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Partner with engineers to embed quality early in the development lifecycle.
• Lead API and backend testing across services.
• Track quality metrics such as coverage, defects, and release readiness.
• Support debugging and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Mentor QA engineers and drive best practices within the team.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or backend testing with a Java-based testing environment.
• Strong hands-on experience building and scaling automation frameworks.
• Expertise in automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress, and proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, or Python).
• Strong experience with API testing tools like Postman or RestAssured.
• Solid understanding of software testing principles, including test design and risk-based testing.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to operate independently with high ownership and accountability.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken, to collaborate with the US team.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or high-transaction systems.
• Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (JMeter, k6, etc.).
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to security testing practices.

What We Offer

• Fully remote position (work from anywhere under the US time zones).
• Opportunity to learn modern Java practices on a real migration project with senior mentorship.
• Collaborative and supportive team environment.