About our Company:
LemFi (YC S21, Series B) is revolutionizing cross-border financial services for immigrants through its multi-currency platform, processing over $1 billion in monthly transactions. We provide instant remittances, foreign exchange services, and multi-currency accounts, all in one seamless experience.
With 300+ employees across 15+ countries, our platform supports twelve currencies and integrates directly with local banks and mobile money providers, ensuring fast, low-cost transactions. But we’re not stopping at payments. LemFi is building a comprehensive financial ecosystem empowering immigrants with the financial tools they need to thrive—wherever they go.
Our vision: To build the first full-stack financial services hub for the world’s immigrant population. 🚀
Job Summary:
We are seeking a QA Lead to define and drive our quality assurance strategy, ensuring the highest standards for our mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software quality management, deep knowledge of structured testing methodologies, team management and experience overseeing test automation initiatives.
As a QA Lead, you will play a key role in shaping our testing strategy, prioritising efforts between automated and manual testing, shaping QA processes, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality financial products.
Job Description & Responsibilities:
Team Management
- Conduct regular performance reviews and set development goals.
- Distribute workload and take ownership of team performance.
- Perform job interviews with QA candidates.
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
- Provide leadership and strategic direction to automation initiatives, managing and overseeing the test engineers responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks.
- Continuously evaluate and implement appropriate QA technologies and methodologies to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate quality assurance practices at early stages of product development.
- Mentor other QA engineers and conduct knowledge sharing sessions.
Quality Assurance Strategy & Oversight
- Define and drive the overall QA strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, engineering processes, and industry best practices.
- Oversee the design and execution of test plans, ensuring comprehensive test coverage across functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
- Develop a structured approach to mobile application testing, ensuring compatibility across diverse devices, OS versions, and network conditions.
- Establish processes for software defect identification, documentation, and resolution tracking
- Work closely with developers, product managers, and other related teams to improve software quality.
- Mentoring other QA engineers and sharing knowledge.
- Ensure the integration of automation into the testing strategy, collaborating with automation engineers to optimize test efficiency and reliability.
Quality Assurance Best Practices
- Advocate for best practices in testing and automation, ensuring adherence to structured testing methodologies, industry standards, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Define, monitor, and report key QA metrics, such as test coverage, defect density, automation efficiency, and release quality, providing actionable insights to stakeholders.
- Continuously assess and refine QA strategies based on data-driven analysis to enhance software quality and optimize testing processes.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a QA Lead, with a strong technical background.
- Hands-on experience overseeing test automation initiatives, defining best practices, and guiding QA teams
- Expertise in test automation frameworks for mobile apps (e.g., WebdriverIO, XCUITest, Appium etc).
- Skilled in Programming languages used in test automation such as Java, Python, JavaScript.
- Knowledge of mobile testing challenges and solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud-based testing platforms, such as BrowserStack or other similar tools
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and DevOps teams.
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with performance and security testing concepts.
- Previous experience in financial domain
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject