Flywire

FinTech

SeniorQAEngineer

$100–135k Boston, Massachusetts, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior QA Engineer at Flywire. Skills: QA Engineering, Test Automation Frameworks, Web Application Testing, API Testing, Performance Testing, Continuous Delivery. Understand requirements and user stories as a whole for risk-based testing. Provide feedback and add acceptance criteria to the stories if edge cases are not clear”

What You'll Achieve.

Improving the productivity of engineering; Improving the quality of services; Deliver on our short and long term goals

Industry & Context.

FinTech
Problems you'll solve

Detect and solve production issues and bugs; Dive into scalability and performance considerations; Investigate test failures; Identify design flaws; Suggest potential solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years of experience in web application development or quality assurance, Knowledge of Javascript, Java and scripting skills in Shell, Familiar with RESTful web service principles and using HTTP clients and tools like (Postman, Rest-assured, Playwright, and Wiremock), Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery technology and practices as well as containerization technologies like Docker, Experience working on a mature software product where availability and performance are key, Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools, Experience in code quality metrics and tools as well as building test automation frameworks, Understanding of software quality principles and agile development practices, Fluency in English, Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent, Must be based within Eastern Time Zone

Nice to Have

Experience in FinTech or the payment industry, Experience in Student Information Systems or Financial ERP

What You'll Do.

Understand requirements and user stories as a whole for risk-based testing

Provide feedback and add acceptance criteria to the stories if edge cases are not clear

Detect and solve production issues and bugs within the development environment beyond your current scope

Dive into scalability and performance considerations in order to detect and solve scalability & performance Issues

Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns

Investigate test failures in production

identify design flaws

and suggest potential solutions

maintainable and extendable code

Lean into our business domain and needs as well as our company vision

mission and strategy to deliver on our short and long term goals

Bring fresh ideas to the team and analyze emerging test tools

trends and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes

Identify opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team

Become involved in tech communities and add contributions to enhance them

Drive adoption of best practices in code health

Identify great talent and excite them to join our team

Provide good estimations

track progress and manage risk as well as team members' time

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Commitment to collaborative problem solving; Collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support; Mentor team members; Act as a lead on projects and new initiatives; Identify great talent and excite them to join our team

Communication Scope

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Process & Methodology

Provide good estimations, Track progress, Manage risk, Manage team members' time

Full Job Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! Who we are: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow. The Opportunity: We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. QA Engineer I ideally with a background in FinTech The Quality Assurance team at Flywire is a group of engineers dedicated to improving the productivity of engineering and quality of services in Flywire. We focus on adding value to Flywire’s engineering by providing a diverse array of sustainable tools and processes. Our scope of service to other teams does not just involve writing tests because our focus is on facilitating tools and processes to boost productivity. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, design, and building quality products is essential. * Understand requirements and user stories as a whole for risk-based test

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