(High Salary) Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

The Company

MPOWER's borderless loans and scholarships enable students from around the world to realize their full academic and career potential by attending top universities in the U.S and Canada.

As a mission-oriented fintech/edtech company, we move extremely quickly and leverage the latest technologies, global best practices, and heavy analytics to tackle one of the biggest challenges in financial inclusion. We're backed by over $150 million in equity capital from top global investors, which enables fast growth and provides our company with financial stability and a clear path to an IPO over the coming years.

Our global team is composed of former management consultants, financial service and technology professionals, and other experts in their respective fields. We work hard, have fun, and believe strongly in our cause. For us, MPOWER's mission is personal.

As a member of our team, you'll be challenged to think quickly, act autonomously, and constantly grow creatively in an environment where fast change and exponential growth are the norm. Ideation and implementation happen very quickly. We value feedback and emphasize personal and professional development by providing the resources you need to further your skills and grow with the company. MPOWER is committed to cultivating your strengths and curiosity and helping you make an immediate impact.

MPOWER has been named one of the best fintechs to work for by American Banker for the past 6 years in a row.. We are honored to be nominated by multiple agencies and publications for our leadership in Tech, diversity and social impact. We pride ourselves on being a growth company for grown-ups, where there are no pool tables but rather great health, education, and maternity/paternity benefits instead. Our team diversity has been recognized as well; we're one of the most diverse workforces in the world in terms of nationality, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and educational background.

THIS IS A FULL-TIME POSITION BASED IN BANGALORE, INDIA.

THE ROLE

Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be a key member of the Engineering team responsible for maintaining high-quality standards across MPOWER's digital products. You will lead end-to-end testing efforts, ensure software meets business and user expectations, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver best-in-class applications in a fast-paced agile environment. Your responsibilties will include but are not limited to:

- Translating business requirements into comprehensive test cases and plans.
- Designing, implementing, and executing manual and automated tests for functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.
- Leading performance testing and contributing to test automation strategy using tools like Selenium and Robot Framework.
- Collaborating with Product Managers, Developers, and DevOps to maintain CI/CD pipelines and ensure test coverage across releases.
- Defining, tracking, and reporting QA metrics (coverage, defect leakage, performance, effectiveness) to stakeholders.
- Participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and all phases of the Agile SDLC.
- Owning and improving QA processes, contributing to continuous integration and quality standards across the organization.
- Creating thorough and maintainable documentation to support testing activities and knowledge sharing.

The Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 4-8 years of QA experience in a software development environment.
- Hands-on scripting experience in Python for test automation.
- Proficiency with QA tools and frameworks (Selenium, Robot Framework).
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, TeamCity.
- Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

A passion for financial inclusion and access to higher education is a must, as well as comfort working with a global team across multiple time zones and locations

In addition, you should be comfortable working in a fast growth environment, meaning a small agile team, fast-evolving roles and responsibilities, variable workload, tight deadlines, a high degree of autonomy, and 80-20 everything.