Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

emerchantpay is a leading global payment service provider and acquirer for online, mobile, in-store and over the phone payments. Our global payments solution is available through a simple integration, offering a diverse range of features, including global acquiring, global and local payment methods, advanced fraud management and performance optimisation. We empower businesses to design seamless and engaging payment experiences for their consumers.

We are looking for an experienced, full-time Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our IT team.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in software quality assurance, test automation, API testing, and testing of modern cloud-native systems. This role is suitable for someone who can work independently across complex systems, contribute to QA strategy, improve automation coverage, and actively use modern AI tools to increase testing efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, maintain, and continuously improve test cases for different projects and product areas.
• Use AI-assisted tools to generate, review, optimize, and maintain test cases and test scenarios.
• Execute different types of black-box testing, including functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and non-functional testing.
• Perform API testing and contribute to API test automation across internal and external services.
• Monitor, track, analyze, and report defects identified during test execution.
• Work closely with developers, product owners, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and define appropriate test coverage.
• Keep track of development changes and carry out relevant testing when needed.
• Automate test cases using various tools, frameworks, and programming/scripting languages.
• Use AI tools, coding agents, and MCP-enabled workflows to improve QA productivity, including test generation, automation support, defect analysis, documentation, and integrations.
• Contribute to the testing strategy for cloud-native systems, microservices, integrations, and distributed architectures.
• Document and assure the quality of software applications across all architectural layers.
• Support continuous improvement of QA processes, tools, standards, and best practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• 3+ years of experience in automated testing — developer profiles welcome!
• Knowledge of Ruby, Rails, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or other programming languages used for test automation.
• Strong experience with test case design, test execution, defect reporting, regression testing, and release validation.