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Boku is a global payment infrastructure platform connecting billions of consumers to their preferred payment methods. The company operates across 60+ countries, supports 200+ local payment methods, and powers payment systems for major digital businesses including Spotify, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, and Tencent.
You will lead a distributed team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for quality engineering across critical payment and settlement platforms. This is a hands-on management role combining people leadership with technical credibility, requiring you to guide automation strategy, make informed decisions in ambiguous situations, and advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
**Team Leadership & Development**
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed SDET team
- Create an environment focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
- Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring
**Quality Engineering Excellence**
- Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle
- Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
- Review technical approaches and provide guidance on automation architecture and quality risks
**Program & Stakeholder Management**
- Lead quality initiatives across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
- Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform teams
- Balance competing priorities and make effective decisions in dynamic environments
- Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations clearly to stakeholders
**Continuous Improvement**
- Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
- Champion process improvements and engineering best practices
- Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering
The role operates in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve, multiple initiatives run in parallel, and cross-functional collaboration is essential. You will navigate ambiguity, make decisions with incomplete information, and lead teams through rapidly changing priorities.
**Requirements**
- 10+ years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering
- 3+ years of people management experience leading SDET or QA teams
- Proven experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations
- Strong technical background in test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best practices
- Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar
- Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes
- Experience with CI/CD, cloud technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS is a plus
- FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Settlement domain experience is preferred
