QA Engineer - INTL Chile

Insight Global; Alaska; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global's client, a global financial technology organization, seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead testing strategy for backend services, APIs, and payments workflows. You will build scalable automation frameworks, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering teams on CI/CD quality.

This role emphasizes AI-assisted testing, modern cloud technologies, and proactive quality decisions, with opportunities to influence platform modernization and release

Qualifications

• 6 to 10+ years building production test automation, end-to-end.
• Strong test automation skills across languages and frameworks.
• SQL and relational database fundamentals for test data and validation.
• API testing with Postman or similar tools and UI automation with Playwright/Cypress.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, AWS, and production monitoring for quality feedback.
• Experience with contract testing (Pact) and testing in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated testing solutions for backend services, APIs, and critical payment workflows.
• Design testing strategies that improve software quality, release confidence, and system reliability.
• Create automated and manual test coverage across onboarding, identity verification, payments, settlement, FX, and platform services.
• Build and maintain integration testing frameworks for third-party partners and external APIs.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve CI/CD quality, release gates, and test infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and convert findings into automated testing improvements.
• Lead testing strategy discussions and modernization initiatives; mentor QA engineers.

Skills

Test automation

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

C#

API testing

UI automation

SQL

CI/CD

AWS

Performance testing

Pact (contract testing)

Windows testing

Mobile testing

Communication

Tools

Postman

Playwright

Cypress

JMeter

k6

GitHub Actions

Bruno

Pact

Job description

Job Description

About the Company

Insight Global's client is a global financial technology organization that enables secure cross-border payments and currency exchange services for businesses and consumers worldwide. Supporting millions of users and operating across multiple international markets, the company is investing heavily in modernizing its payment platform and expanding its engineering capabilities.

About the Role

Insight Global's client is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to drive quality across mission-critical payment and financial systems. This individual will play a key role in defining testing strategy, building scalable automation frameworks, improving release confidence, and ensuring high-quality software delivery across a modern cloud-based platform. The ideal candidate is a hands-on QA leader who enjoys solving complex challenges, influencing engineering best practices, leveraging AI-powered development tools, and mentoring team members while working closely with engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain automated testing solutions for backend services, APIs, and critical payment workflows.

Design testing strategies that improve software quality, release confidence, and system reliability.

Create automated and manual test coverage across onboarding, identity verification, payments, settlement, foreign exchange, and supporting platform services.

Build and maintain integration testing frameworks for interactions with third-party partners and external APIs.

Partner with engineering teams to improve CI/CD quality standards, release validation processes, and test infrastructure.

Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and convert findings into automated testing improvements.

Establish best practices for test architecture, automation design, and quality engineering within assigned domains.

Lead technical discussions related to testing strategy and automation modernization initiatives.

Mentor QA engineers and provide guidance on testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and quality standards.

Utilize AI-assisted testing and development tools to improve productivity, coverage, and software quality.

Why Join?

Opportunity to work on large-scale financial and payments systems used across international markets.

High visibility role with influence on engineering quality, automation strategy, and platform modernization.

Collaborative environment where quality engineering is a key part of the software development lifecycle.

Ability to work with modern cloud technologies, AI-assisted tooling, and scalable automation frameworks while helping shape the future of a growing platform.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Skills and Requirements

Must-Have

6 to 10+ years building production test automation, end-to-end.

Strong test automation skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C#, including test framework design, system design, and test architecture experience.

SQL and relational database fundamentals (for test data, validation, and debugging).

API testing (Postman, Bruno, or equivalent) and UI automation (Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent).

Functional and non-functional testing principles (reliability and security) and disciplined defect management, with hands-on performance, load, or resilience testing (k6, JMeter, or equivalent).

Comfortable generating test cases and running manual tests where they are the right tool, alongside building automated coverage.

Daily use of agentic coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) and AI test tools (test generation, eval frameworks, or equivalent) across the SDLC.

Production experience with AWS in a development or test context, and CI/CD pipeline ownership (GitHub Actions or equivalent), including building release gates.

Payments, FX, or regulated-industry experience.

Track record of QA technical leadership: setting test architecture, leading code reviews of test automation, and making quality decisions in your domain.

Strong written and verbal communication. Experience with contract testing for partner integrations (Pact or equivalent).

Experience testing Windows client applications.

Mobile app test automation.

Experience leading modernization of test estates or quality programs.