Quality Engineering Lead for AI-Driven Payments

Confidential; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tereina is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to own quality across software delivery. You will define test strategy, build tooling, and partner with engineering leaders to keep deployments free of regressions across development to production.

You will lead by example in writing tests, improving tooling, and tackling failures, while coordinating with banking partners and compliance teams to maintain transparent quality posture.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality or test engineering.
• Leading quality strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on automation of API and end-to-end tests.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the test strategy for software delivery.
• Build and evolve quality tooling and data management.
• Ensure regression-free releases with clear go/no-go criteria.
• Verify performance and resilience of payment flows.
• Collaborate with leadership to shape delivery processes.
• Monitor quality across environments with meaningful metrics.
• Coordinate testing and certification with banking/partner orgs.
• Ensure quality evidence supports auditability and compliance.
• Mentor engineers and foster a quality-driven culture.

Skills

Quality leadership

Test engineering

Release strategy

Automation

CI/CD tooling

AI-assisted engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Distributed teams

Job description

Tereina is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to own quality across software delivery. You will define test strategy, build tooling, and partner with engineering leaders to keep deployments free of regressions across development to production.

You will lead by example in writing tests, improving tooling, and tackling failures, while coordinating with banking partners and compliance teams to maintain transparent quality posture.