Senior QA Engineer

About us:

Airtm is a financial-infrastructure company building the future of the online-work economy. We are on a mission to empower the world's growing number of Digital Entrepreneurs in the Global South, giving them the financial freedom to thrive.

The problem is clear: in emerging markets, accessing the dollar economy is difficult. Cross-border payments are slow, expensive, and often lose value to inflation. This limits the potential of millions of talented individuals.

Airtm’s solution is a swift and comprehensive financial platform that facilitates low-value cross-border payments and local cash-outs. As pioneers in stablecoin-payment infrastructure, Airtm has built the most advanced cross-border payment system available on the market.

As a company married to the world of online work, Airtm will go beyond payments to build the necessary infrastructure the online-work economy needs to thrive. We are fostering an entirely new economy, giving individuals, communities, and countries the tools to take control of their financial destinies.

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.