Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Want full ownership and autonomy building automation frameworks? Read below

We are currently partnered with a regulated payments fintech building the future of P2P payments, B2B payments, remittances, and neo-banking. With their HQ based in Dubai and their recent successful expansion they are now looking to expand with a European hub in Porto.

If you're excited about building innovative fintech products and shaping how the companies of the future will operate, you're in the right place.

What will you be doing?

• Build the QA automation strategy, frameworks, and tooling from the ground up.
• Establish end-to-end, integration, contract, and snapshot testing across web and mobile platforms.
• Implement AI-powered autonomous testing in production, enabling intelligent test generation, maintenance, and self-healing with robust governance and guardrails.
• Integrated automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for critical user journeys. Including sign-up, onboarding, payments, top-ups, and more!

Who are we looking for?

• Although it is a lead title this role is completely an IC position, we are looking for someone who is able to lead projects and built automation completely from scratch
• Hands on experience with modern technologies such as Playwright or Cypress for web and Appium or Flutter for mobile.
• Extensive hands-on experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
• Built and deployed AI agents and workflow automations that eliminated repetitive manual tasks, streamlined QA processes, and increased team efficiency.
• Ideally from a fintech background but this is not a must

Location: Remote anywhere in Portugal (or nearby countries in the same time zone) or hybrid in Porto (if you love going into the office)

⏰ Working Hours: East Africa Time (EAT) with core collaboration hours from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EAT

Compensation: Highly competitive salary + comprehensive benefits

Sounds exciting? Hit the apply button and I will reach out if it's a match