Freelance QA Engineer

• Serve as QA reference for the KYC/Onboarding and Capital Deposit product squads throughout the contract
• Ensure the quality of features released by both squads
• Reduce automated-test debt on KYC/Onboarding and Capital Deposit flows
• Learn business rules and regulatory constraints for onboarding and capital deposit flows
• Analyze specifications and user stories with Product Managers and engineers, identifying ambiguities, missing rules, and risks early
• Design risk-based test strategies and functional test cases using ISTQB techniques
• Execute functional, exploratory, and regression testing across UI and APIs
• Validate releases
• Automate end-to-end scenarios with Cucumber/Gherkin and Playwright using TypeScript
• Maintain existing automated test suites
• Maintain Qase test repository and requirements repository for accurate traceability
• Report and qualify bugs, follow them through resolution, and participate in root-cause analyses and post-mortems
• Coordinate QA priorities across two squads and communicate test status, risks, and blockers
• Use AI tools to accelerate test analysis, test design, and test automation while critically reviewing outputs
• Share QA automation and AI practices with the QA team

• Confirmed QA Engineer / software tester with around 4+ years of experience
• Experience working in an agile product team, ideally
• Ability to prioritize work across several teams and communicate status, risks, and blockers
• Experience testing APIs (GraphQL or REST) and web interfaces
• Hands-on experience with test automation, ideally Playwright and/or Cucumber/Gherkin
• Comfortable reading and writing TypeScript or a similar language
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, or ChatGPT in testing, or willingness to use them
• Experience in banking, fintech, or another regulated industry is a strong plus
• Knowledge and pragmatic application of ISTQB concepts and vocabulary
• ISTQB certification is a plus
• Fluent in English and French

• Temporarily remote work arrangement
• Contract freelance engagement
• Caring and inclusive work environment
• Collaboration with an experienced, close-knit QA team
• AI-assisted QA pipeline and access to tools including Claude / Claude Code
• Opportunity to work with modern testing tools and frameworks