Quality Engineer (Tech Lead)

About AffiniPay

AffiniPay is a leading fintech company, based out of Austin, Texas. As the market leader in professional services payments and practice management software, AffiniPay’s tech products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. AffiniPay has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Engineering Tech Lead to join our team at Affinipay, a leading fintech company. As a Quality Engineering Tech Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality of our fintech back-end systems and SaaS platform, driving our QE processes through matrixed organizations, and working closely with cross-functional teams to identify, report, and resolve defects. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing comprehensive test plans, leveraging your expertise in back-end systems, message queues, cloud-based testing, container orchestration, and Agile methodologies.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated tests for our fintech back-end systems and SaaS platform, focusing on functionality, performance, security, and scalability
• Test and validate message queue implementations, data flow, and asynchronous processing systems
• Collaborate with development teams to identify and prioritize testing requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs
• Utilize Linux operating system and command-line interfaces to perform testing and troubleshooting activities
• Develop and maintain test cases and plans using industry-standard tools and frameworks, leveraging cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS)
• Work closely with DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of testing into CI/CD pipelines, utilizing Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, ensuring effective communication and collaboration within the team
• Identify, report, and track defects using our issue tracking system (e.g., Jira, DataDog), providing detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce, expected results, and actual results
• Collaborate with development teams to resolve defects, ensuring timely and high-quality fixes
• Develop and maintain testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Mentor and train other quality engineers, and learn from other quality engineers across the team
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software testing, applying this knowledge to continuously improve our testing processes and strategies

About You

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with a focus on fintech back-end systems and SaaS platform testing in the cloud
• Experience with message queue technologies (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS, Redis Pub/Sub)
• Strong proficiency in Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Experience with Test Rail or other Test Management System
• Experience with SQL databases and database testing
• Expertise with industry-standard testing tools and frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Pytest)
• Proficiency in Agile Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, and retrospectives
• Experience with issue tracking and monitoring systems (e.g. Jira, DataDog)
• Understanding of API testing and back-end service validation
• Ability to programmatically understand the flow and outputs of pre-existing code written in a variety of languages, e.g. Ruby
• 3+ years being the primary QE contact for a project or deliverable
• Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail and the ability to write detailed bug reports
• Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines