QA Engineer Lead

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💎 Seniority level: Lead, 6+ years

📍 Location: Brazil

💸 Salary: 360000.0 - 455000.0 BRL per year

🔍 Industry: Fraud Prevention and AML Compliance

🏢 Company: Sardine👥 101-250💰 $70,000,000 Series C 4 months agoCryptocurrency Fraud Detection FinTech Software

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 6+ years

🪄 Skills: LeadershipPythonSQLCypressGitJavascriptJenkinsPeople ManagementQA AutomationTypeScriptCross-functional Team LeadershipAPI testingManual testingREST APITestRailSeleniumCI/CDMentoringDevOpsQuality AssuranceTeam management

Requirements:

6+ years of experience in QA or software engineering roles with a strong testing focus, ideally in high-growth startup environments
2+ years of formal management or team lead experience, including mentoring QA engineers
Experience working with distributed or international teams
Expertise in building end-to-end test automation for APIs, web frontend and mobile SDKs
Proficiency with modern test frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Selenium, Playwright)
Comfort writing tests in languages like Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and how to integrate automated tests
Strong communicator with a bias toward action, ownership, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities:

Own and evolve the QA function across our products, including test framework, test automation, manual QA practices, and continuous integration
Build a robust, scalable, and maintainable automated test framework for backend APIs and frontend applications
Develop test plans, cases, and data strategies for complex features across distributed systems.
Partner with engineers to shift testing left and embed quality into the dev lifecycle
Partner with DevOps and Engineering to embed quality gates into our CI/CD and release pipelines
Establish and track quality KPIs such as defect density, regression rates, and test coverage.
Promote a culture of quality and champion QA best practices across the organization.
Lead and mentor QA engineers while contributing hands-on to test development.

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