Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Fintech)

About the role

FinSurgents, a consultancy for embedded finance and fintech solutions, is hiring a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Lahore on a hybrid schedule. The role covers testing of internal products and client implementations such as loan management systems, payment integrations, back-office tools and mobile apps, and includes building the company-wide test automation framework. Lending expertise is not expected on day one.

Key responsibilities

• Review requirements and technical specifications early and raise gaps before development starts
• Design test plans and write test cases covering functionality, edge cases and usability
• Test REST APIs end to end, including authentication, error handling and duplicate or retried requests
• Verify loan calculations such as repayment schedules, markup and penalties against reference models
• Write and maintain automated tests in Python, pytest, Playwright and Maestro
• Use SQL to check that data, balances and reports match the underlying transactions
• Test scheduled jobs and event-driven flows such as nightly calculations and message queues
• Test back-office web apps and mobile apps on real devices, run regression and integration testing per release and support client UAT
• Report defects clearly and keep test documentation up to date

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Fintech or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2-4 years in software QA, covering manual and automated testing
• Hands-on API testing experience (Postman or similar)
• Strong SQL skills, including joins, aggregations and data validation
• Comfort with numbers and spreadsheets, and ability to work through calculations step by step
• Ability to read technical documentation and work closely with engineers
• Experience with bug tracking and test management tools such as Jira or TestRail, and with Git

Nice to have

• Testing experience in lending, banking, payments, BNPL or other financial systems
• Awareness of regulatory requirements in financial services
• Exposure to message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Mobile testing experience (Maestro, Appium or Detox) and familiarity with CI pipelines