QA / Quality Engineering Lead

We’re looking for a hands‑on QA / Quality Engineering Lead to build and lead the quality engineering function for a modern payments platform. This is not a traditional QA management role. We need a builder — someone who creates automation frameworks, test infrastructure and internal engineering tools that developers actually want to use. 🔹 Build automation frameworks and test harnesses, primarily in Go 🔹 Develop test infrastructure for distributed payment systems 🔹 Build mocks, service virtualisation and test data management tools 🔹 Introduce AI‑powered tools for test generation, impact analysis and failure triage 🔹 Implement quality gates and automated quality signals in CI/CD 🔹 Define risk‑based quality strategy for APIs, payment flows and PSP integrations 🔹 Lead and develop the QA/QE team 🔹 Work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform, Security, Risk & Compliance What we’re looking for: ✅ 7+ years in QA / Quality Engineering + leadership experience ✅ Strong hands‑on software engineering skills, ideally Go ✅ Experience building automation frameworks / test infrastructure ✅ Strong payments domain knowledge: PSPs, acquiring, 3DS/SCA, callbacks, retries, refunds, reversals, settlement & reconciliation ✅ Strong API, integration and contract testing experience ✅ Experience with distributed and asynchronous systems ✅ SQL, logs, metrics & tracing ✅ CI/CD and Git workflows ✅ Experience with AI engineering tools ✅ Strong communication and stakeholder management ⭐ Nice to have: Kubernetes, cloud, event‑driven architecture, observability, PCI DSS, PSD2/SCA, performance & resilience testing. 🌟 What we offer: ✈️ Relocation support: flight tickets + accommodation for the first 2 weeks 🛂 Visa support 🏢 Modern office in Limassol 📈 Professional growth & leadership opportunities 💻 Modern FinTech & payment products 🤝 Supportive and collaborative team