Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 300 local payment methods across 70+ countries. Every year, Boku processes over $10 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in over 39 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the UAE. Boku is a truly global company that takes pride in its diversity and thriving equal opportunity workplace.
Role Purpose
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our distributed QA team and help take our testing to the next level by maturing and standardizing our processes, developing/improving automation and tooling. To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a passion for building a growing a high performing team. The candidate must have experience designing and build automation framework and tools used by QA teams. The candidate must have experience driving process and technological changes throughout Engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage and mentor a distributed QA team
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with product roadmap delivery schedules
- Work with Senior Leadership to define and execute the overall testing methodology and approach
- Identify opportunities and implements strategies to improve the quality of our product and platform through introduction of tooling and processes
- Apply your growing experience and understanding of Test automation and software engineering best practices to influence design and implementation approaches
- Track test gaps, quality, and productivity metrics. Work with other engineering teams to improve gaps from this data.
- Roll out your sleeves and contribute technically to project/initiatives as needed
- Lead process improvement initiatives to improve Engineering as a whole
- Contribute to build a high performing engineering culture that is technical, and data driven
- Perform Hiring in QA team
- Negotiating with Engineering and Product Peers on QA capacity for the incoming work
Key Skills and Competencies
- Experience with distributed Microservices architecture application and End to End testing of these type of applications
- Developed and successfully implemented QA strategies and processes leveraging open-source technologies, as well as in-house built
- Great understanding of testing practices, testing framework and tools
- Ability to dive into technical details and troubleshoot production issues as needed
- Experience managing and working with distributed teams
- Known for being curious, collaborative, great at communication and always willing to go above and beyond
- Experience with Java, UI & API test automation tools
- Experience working with Docker containers, AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience with Continuous Integration systems like GitHub Actions/Jenkins
- Experience with Scrum systems and Project management
- Experience in driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong organizational skill and detailed oriented
- Experience with performance reviews
- Good to have Payments domain/Fintech experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering in Computer science or equivalent degree of 4 years
- 3+ years of experience in people management, managing a team of SDETs and effectively communicating with Cross department Peers
- 10+ years working in Software testing domain, designing and implementing automation framework, testing tools and developing automation tests
