About This Role
Key technical requirements and skills: - 5+ years of engineering experience with a focus on QA or testing - 2+ years of experience in payments, financial systems, or high-accuracy data workflows - Strong manual testing skills, including designing and executing comprehensive test scenarios, performing exploratory testing, and validating functional and non-functional requirements - Expertise in defect management, including reporting high-quality bugs and participating in classification and resolution processes - Proficiency in regression testing and release support, including providing informed Go/No-Go recommendations Team/project information: - The company is building a finance-first operating system for private education in Latin America, trusted by over 1,000 schools and hundreds of thousands of families - The QA Engineer will join the growing Quality team and help establish robust testing practices from the ground up Unique/notable aspects: - The role is a high-impact, senior individual contributor position that supports
About the Company
They are building the finance-first All-In-One Operating System for private education across Latin America.
Already trusted by 1,000+ schools and hundreds of thousands of families in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Well-funded with $89M raised, fresh $50M debt facility, and a transformative acquisition that turns them into the full-stack OS for schools.
Mission: give every school perfect clarity, zero financial surprises, and the cash flow to never close its doors.
Role Overview
They are seeking a Senior Manual QA Engineer to join their growing Quality team and help establish robust testing practices from the ground up. You will focus on analyzing requirements, designing and executing manual test cases, and processes to ensure reliability across payments, billing, reconciliation, onboarding, integrations, SIS, and other mission-critical workflows.
Your work will directly support millions of tuition payments processed annually, the trust of thousands of schools, and the seamless experience of families across Latin America. This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role for someone who excels in fast-scaling environments and enjoys building reliable systems.
What You’ll Do
Quality ownership & analysis
Analyze product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, risks, and ambiguities.
Actively participate in refinement, planning, and design discussions to ensure quality is built in early.
Define and challenge acceptance criteria to make them clear, testable, and aligned with user value.
Test design & execution
Design and execute comprehensive manual test scenarios, including happy paths, edge cases and negative scenarios.
Perform exploratory testing guided by risk and system knowledge.
Validate functional and relevant non-functional aspects (usability, permissions, basic performance perception).
Ensure testing is proportional to risk and impact.
Defect management
Report high-quality, reproducible defects with clear steps, expected vs actual results, and impact analysis.
Classify defects by severity and priority in collaboration with Product and Engineering.
Follow up on fixes, perform re-testing, and validate side effects.
Identify recurring defect patterns and systemic quality issues.
Regression & release support
Plan and execute regression testing (focused or full, depending on context).
Perform smoke testing in pre-production and production environments when required.
Provide informed Go / No-Go recommendations based on risk and test results.
Support hotfix validation and incident follow-ups.
Collaboration & communication
Work closely with developers to clarify expected behavior and reproduce issues.
Partner with Product to align on user experience and business impact.
Communicate risks, trade-offs, and quality status clearly and proactively.
Act as a quality advocate without becoming a blocker.
Continuous improvement
Identify opportunities to improve testing practices, documentation, and workflows.
Contribute to test checklists, guidelines, and shared knowledge.
Collaborate with QA Automation to identify candidates for automation.
Participate in post-mortems and propose preventive actions.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of engineering experience, with a focus on QA or testing
2+ years in payments, financial systems, or high-accuracy data workflows
2+ years testing apis/microservices.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data integrity patterns
Familiarity with integrating with payment providers, banks, or financial APIs
Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and system design abilities
Full professional proficiency in Spanish and English (written & spoken)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Latin American payment methods (OXXO, PSE, SPEI, Banred, etc.)
Familiarity with electronic invoicing systems and country-specific tax requirements
Experience with reconciliation platforms (e.g., Simetrik)
Background in high-throughput, mission-critical systems processing large financial volumes
Knowledge of accounting, ERP, or financial data models
Experience contributing to QA automation, observability, or reliability engineering
Experience working with AI, ML pipelines, or AI-assisted validation systems
Why Join
Play a key role in stabilizing and modernizing one of the most critical product areas
Build complex, high-impact systems that power the financial backbone of thousands of schools
Collaborate with world-class engineering, product, and AI teams
Directly influence reliability for millions of tuition transactions each year
Remote-first culture with autonomy, ownership, and career growth
Opportunity to shape LATAM’s most important education-fintech infrastructure
Career growth opportunities as product, engineering, and the platform explode
Location: Flexible
Travel: Occasional travel to Mexico City for team onsite sessions
If you are passionate about transforming financial complexities into streamlined efficiency and leading agile teams to empower the success of thousands of schools across LATAM, submit your CV today!
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