Lead QA Engineer: FinTech & E‑commerce Quality

Sound Decisions; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sound Decisions in Austin, TX is seeking a QA Engineer to lead quality assurance across our fintech and ecommerce software products. You will own test strategy, strengthen processes, and partner with engineering, product, implementation, support, and customers to raise the quality bar.

The role emphasizes shift-left testing, design of test plans, and expanding automation within CI/CD workflows, with a focus on delivering reliable, high-quality experiences for our users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software QA experience, API and non-API environments.
• Experience leading or coordinating QA efforts, balancing hands-on testing and process improvement.
• Strong FinTech and e-commerce domain knowledge.
• Proficient in test planning, exploratory testing, regression testing, and defect management.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the overall QA strategy, including manual, regression, exploratory, and automated testing approaches.
• Design and execute test plans for new products, enhancements, and existing functionality to validate quality.
• Lead a shift-left quality mindset by participating early in planning, refinement, and requirements discussions so issues are identified before release.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects with enough detail for engineering teams to reproduce, isolate, and resolve issues quickly.
• Retest resolved defects and partner with developers to confirm fixes address root causes and edge cases.
• Build robust coverage across happy path, non-happy path, and true edge-case scenarios.
• Drive adoption and expansion of test automation, including integrating automated tests into delivery workflows and CI/CD practices.
• Provide recommendations to improve regression coverage, test efficiency, tooling, and overall quality processes.
• Monitor and report on issue trends, testing progress, quality risks, and resolution metrics to support better planning and decision-making.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, implementation, support, and customers to ensure test plans reflect real-world usage and business impact.

Skills

QA leadership

Test planning

Exploratory testing

Regression testing

Defect management

Jira

CI/CD

Automation concepts

FinTech knowledge

Communication skills

Tools

Git

Job description

Sound Decisions in Austin, TX is seeking a QA Engineer to lead quality assurance across our fintech and ecommerce software products. You will own test strategy, strengthen processes, and partner with engineering, product, implementation, support, and customers to raise the quality bar.

The role emphasizes shift-left testing, design of test plans, and expanding automation within CI/CD workflows, with a focus on delivering reliable, high-quality experiences for our users.