QA Engineer

About us:

Airtm is the world’s most connected digital dollar account with over 500 different ways to buy and sell digital dollars.  Airtm’s globally accessible dollar account allows anyone to hold their wealth in a stable currency, participate in the global economy and cash out remittances at fair exchange rates.  Our users include freelancers and gig workers who connect Airtm to access stable currencies (USDC) and move money across borders. We are now transforming into a platform for Digital Entrepreneurs (DE).

As of 2024, more than 10% of the world's workforce works online. This digital economy will continue to grow at double digits for the unforeseeable future. This digital work revolution contains the opportunity to give hundreds of millions throughout the global south their financial independence. It contains the opportunity to free people from their local constraints. Giving people, their communities and countries control over their destiny.Incorporated in the United States and registered with FinCEN as an MSB (Money Service Business), we have presence in more than 190 countries.   

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer who is passionate about quality, clarity, and catching issues before they make it to production. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to extract clear acceptance criteria from specs, validate features against those criteria, and build robust automated tests that ensure confidence in our releases. You'll be testing a modern React-based web application backed by a suite of Node.js services, exposed via both REST and GraphQL APIs.

What you’ll be responsible for:

- Analyze product specifications to derive comprehensive and testable acceptance criteria

- Collaborate with product managers and developers to clarify requirements and edge cases

- Design, implement, and maintain automated end-to-end, integration, and regression tests

- Manually test complex or new features before automation coverage is established

- Monitor and improve test coverage and reliability over time

- Contribute to CI/CD processes by integrating tests into our deployment pipeline

- Raise the bar for quality through thoughtful bug reports, feedback, and documentation

Experience and skills required:

- 5+ years of experience in QA or software testing, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role

- Proven experience testing modern web applications, ideally built with React

- Strong understanding of backend services, APIs (REST and GraphQL), and common failure scenarios

- Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, or similar)

- Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD tools, and test environments

- Ability to read and understand frontend and backend code when debugging or writing tests

- Excellent communication skills and a proactive, detail-oriented mindset

- Advanced / Fluent in English.

Nice to have: 

- Experience working in agile or cross-functional teams

- Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact) or mocking frameworks

- Background in performance or security testing

Applicants must be based in South, North or Central America

(applications from other locations will not be considered).

This is a fully remote role, reporting to our Tech Lead.