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About the Role

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Engineering, the Quality Engineering Lead owns quality across Tereina's software delivery. This strategic role has a hands-on core, defining test strategy, building quality tooling, and ensuring a regression-free release cycle. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape software delivery and provide company-wide visibility into quality across all environments.

Responsibilities

Define and own Tereina's test strategy for delivering software, focusing on high-stakes areas and leveraging automated checks for low-risk changes.
Build and continuously improve tooling for early and frequent testing, including automated test suites, simulators, test data management, and reporting.
Ensure every deploy and release protects existing functionality by establishing checks and release criteria that catch regressions.
Verify that payment flows perform and remain resilient under load and during failures.
Collaborate with engineering leadership on adjustments to the software planning, building, and release process, representing quality in reviews.
Monitor and share quality outcomes across all environments using meaningful measures, partnering with engineering managers to improve test coverage based on incident findings.
Coordinate testing and certification activities with banking and partner organizations.
Ensure quality evidence is organized and shareable for customers, partners, auditors, and regulators.
Act as the functional owner of quality across engineering, coaching engineers and building a culture of shared quality ownership.

Requirements

7+ years in software quality, quality engineering, or test engineering.
At least 3 years leading quality strategy and initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
Solid understanding of commercial payments, including payment lifecycles, returns, exceptions, and reconciliation.
Proven track record of defining a test strategy and release criteria for a product with frequent deployments.
Experience automating API and end-to-end tests and improving test tooling.
Clear communicator with experience coordinating projects with external partners or customers.
Hands-on experience with modern AI coding assistants and agents for test generation, maintenance, and analysis.
Experience mentoring engineers across levels and leading through influence in a distributed team.

Skills

Test Strategy
Quality Tooling
Regression Testing
Performance Testing
Resilience Testing
Delivery Process Improvement
Quality Monitoring
Partner Coordination
Compliance
Regulatory Transparency
API Test Automation
End-to-End Test Automation
AI-Assisted Engineering
Cross-border payments
Bank connectivity
Embedded finance
CI/CD integration

Location

Distributed across time zones

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

7+ years
3+ years leading quality strategy

Benefits

Growth opportunities
Impactful work
Innovation
Collaborative culture

About the Company

Tereina is on a mission to revolutionize B2B payments and is a well-funded, early-stage startup supported by SAP.
The company is building cutting-edge solutions for cross-border payment processing, counterparty management, bank account administration, and compliance workflows.
Quality engineering at Tereina focuses on earning confidence in every change, aiming for a zero-touch payment process.
The company embraces AI as a powerful tool for innovation.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to diversity, inclusion, and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.