Senior Quality Engineer

The role

You will own the end-to-end test strategy for the Payments team. You will design validation for payment flows, validate third party integrations, and coach engineers on testing principles.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end test strategy within the team area.
• Design validation for payment flows including authorisation, capture, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, idempotency, and reconciliation.
• Coach and support the team to make quality everyone's responsibility.
• Validate integrations with third party payment gateways and providers.
• Engage from discovery and refinement to ensure acceptance criteria are specific and testable.
• Assess team quality maturity and build plans to lift it.
• Coach engineers on testing principles, test design, and shared ownership of automated tests.
• Mentor mid-level QA engineers on risk assessment, automation, observability and shift left practice.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline health and deployment quality gates.
• Own production defect triage for Payments.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in quality engineering or software engineering with a deep focus on quality, in complex distributed system environments.
• Hands on experience testing web-based SaaS products across front-end, backend, and end to end functional flows.
• Experience with transactional or financially sensitive systems, payments, billing, banking, e-commerce checkout, ledger or reconciliation systems, or similar.
• Experience contributing to test automation frameworks and using and have a solid understanding of the testing pyramid.
• Practical experience working with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Build-kite, or similar platforms.
• Experience contributing to deployment and release quality gates, including test suite selection and environment readiness checks.
• Ability to translate customer needs into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test scenarios.
• Strong root cause analysis and problem-solving skills across complex, multi system failures.
• Excellent technical communication.
• Practical experience using AI in modern software development.

Nice to have

• Experience testing payment gateway or provider integrations (e.g. Stripe, or similar).
• Familiarity with payment rail nuances, ACH, SEPA, BACS, or card networks.
• Exposure to feature flag based or staged rollout strategies for releasing payment features safely.
• Experience validating reconciliation between internal records and a provider's settlement data.

Benefits

• Health care
• Paid time off
• Learning and development opportunities

About the company

StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing solutions for housing management, resident wellness, and revenue generation. The company has offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India.