QA Engineer, Operations

TabaPay

$105K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years of software QA engineering experience in fast-paced settings, preferably fintech or operations-heavy environments.
  • Experience with API and UI Testing, specifically for Web applications and REST APIs using tools like Postman.
  • Proficient in writing SQL queries for backend validation and data verification.
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to conduct root-cause analysis on complex issues.
  • Familiarity with standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and change control frameworks.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to liaise between Operations, QA, and Engineering.
  • High attention to detail with an inclination for spotting UI inconsistencies and process issues.

Responsibilities

  • Validate and sign off on operations change control tickets to ensure safe deployments.
  • Assist in operational task verification during critical QA support periods.
  • Enforce and audit SDLC compliance across operations releases with standardized checklists.
  • Verify deployment success by ensuring builds are error-free and secure.
  • Collaborate with the Operations team to validate new features and ensure comprehensive regression testing.
  • Support secondary QA testing for the Client Portal and conduct REST API testing as needed.
  • Utilize AI tools to enhance test plan design, test case generation, and automate test execution.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, and life for employee only).
  • Employer 401K matching.
  • Generous and flexible paid time off (PTO).
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Verify Operations Change Controls: Validate and sign off on operations change control tickets to ensure safe and reliable deployments.
  • Support Continuous Operations: Assist in verifying operations tasks. While our operations run 24x7x365, you will provide critical QA support to ensure system reliability during key operational periods.
  • Govern the SDLC Process: Enforce and audit SDLC compliance across operations releases using standardized checklists.
  • Validate Build Health: Verify build success by ensuring deployments are free of errors, regressions, and security vulnerabilities.
  • Enhance the Operations Portal: Partner with the Operations team to validate new features added to the Operations Portal while ensuring comprehensive regression testing for existing functionality.
  • Provide Cross-Functional Backup: Support secondary QA testing for the Client Portal and assist with REST API testing.
  • Leverage AI-Driven QA: Utilize advanced AI tools to accelerate test plan design, generate test cases, and automate test execution.

Qualifications
  • Experience: 3-5+ years of software QA engineering experience, ideally in a fast-paced fintech, payments, or operations-heavy environment.
  • API & UI Testing: Solid experience testing Web/UI applications and REST APIs (using tools like Postman, Bruno, or similar).
  • Database Proficiency: Hands-on experience writing SQL queries to verify data, inspect database state, and perform backend validation.
  • Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to perform root-cause analysis on complex operational or build-level issues.
  • Process Governance: Familiarity with standard SDLC processes, change control frameworks, and deployment checklists.
  • Soft Skills: Outstanding communication and collaboration skills to act as a bridge between Operations, QA, and Engineering.
  • Aesthetic & Detail: High attention to detail with an eye for UI consistency, process gaps, and edge cases.

The pay range for this position is $105,000 for base pay; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits as listed below, dependent on the position offered.

This position is hybrid 3 times a week in our Palo Alto office.

Benefits

TabaPay offers the following benefits:
  • 100% employer-paid health care insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance (for employee only)
  • Employer 401K Matching
  • Generous and Flexible PTO

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