Staff QA Engineer

⚡ Staff QA Engineer

🌍 Location

NYC (Hybrid)

💸 Salary

$220k-$250k

About the Client

I've just partnered with a start-up Fintech firm who are the first account offboarding platform for financial institutions. They're looking to add a Staff QA Engineer to their super dynamic and collaborative team as they move into their next stage of growth. They handle escheatment, disbursement, and customer outreach for banks and fintechs, helping them close the loop on inactive accounts and get people back to their money.

What You’ll Do

Test Infrastructure

• Design and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, and E2E layers.
• Own CI/CD quality gates in GitHub Actions. If a pipeline is slow or unreliable, that’s your problem to fix.
• Build regression suites that catch real issues early in the development cycle.

Data Integrity and Compliance

• Design testing around PII handling, encryption, and audit trails
• Build quality gates that maintain SOC 2 compliance as we scale
• Make it hard to ship a data integrity bug. Prevention over detection

Release Confidence

• Define release certification so deploys feel safe, not nerve-wracking
• Track defect escape rate, rollback rate, change failure rate. Make quality visible
• Build dashboards and alerting so the whole team can see where we stand

Leadership

• Say “this isn’t ready” when it isn’t ready. Have people take you seriously when you do
• Sit in architecture reviews and flag risks before they become incidents
• Help engineers get better at testing their own code. The goal is shared ownership, not a QA bottleneck

About You

• 8+ years building test automation and CI/CD pipelines, with increasing responsibility for quality outcomes
• Fintech, banking, or a similarly regulated environment experience.
• Strong with JavaScript/TypeScript testing tools (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, or similar)
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Experience with performance testing (k6, Artillery, Locust, or similar)
• You’re pragmatic about tradeoffs between speed and quality. You don’t chase 100% coverage for its own sake
• You’re comfortable figuring things out. We’re building this function from scratch