Sr – QA Engineer at Tala

Tala (formerly InVenture) builds mobile products that help creditworthy individuals in emerging markets validate their financial identities and get access to fair credit to advance their businesses and families. Tala is providing choice and control to individuals around the world when it comes to their financial identity.

What You’ll Do:

• Work in a hands-on, collaborative environment with top product managers and engineers to build breakthrough experiences and products that solve our users’ most critical needs


• Participate in product grooming sessions with product managers and engineers to understand product goals, features, details, etc.


• Review product specifications (including requirements, flowcharts, designs, etc.) in order to prepare test plans and test scenarios


• Manually execute test plans, scenarios, and cases to ensure the customer experience matches defined product specs


• File clear and concise bug tickets to help engineers fix product defects and issues


• Play a critical role in all releases by conducting regression and smoke tests in Staging and Production environments


• Verify critical production issues as needed


• Involve in on-call rotations to support the production issues


• Be involved in the Scrum process, including stand-ups and related activities


• Test established products as well as new product solutions for new business lines

What You Need:

• 6-7 years of QA methodologies, automated testing tools and test strategies


• Strong programming and scripting skills


• Knowledge and passion for software QA methodologies & processes


• Experience as a quality assurance analyst, software tester, or functional tester conducting manual testing of web and mobile products


• Experience in writing comprehensive test cases aligned with product requirements


• Ability to understand the user’s mindset and how they might use the product


• Strong communication skills with all audiences


• Extreme attention to detail


• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse testing activities simultaneously


• Experience with Agile software development methodology using scrum, sprints, and JIRA


• Working knowledge of technical concepts including programming, logic, databases, SQL queries, data distributed across multiple systems, etc.


• Familiarity with third-party API concepts and integration

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