Senior QA Engineer
About Gerald
Paying bills sucks. It sucks even more for about a third of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling to pay bills on time. About 100 million Americans are at risk of paying overdraft fees if they auto-pay their bills, and are forced to manually log into and pay up to 10 biller accounts each month. Why are so many people wasting their time and energy manually paying bills to avoid overdraft fees? Because they are not using Gerald!
Gerald is a Y Combinator-backed technology company based in New York. Our platform combines fintech, payments, and big data to create an empowering and rewarding user experience for making timely bill payments.
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Our mission
Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills. Gerald provides consumers with overdraft and late fees protection for their household bills. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying biller accounts. Our app tracks and pays bills so our users don’t have to. We offer banking services; direct deposits, credit building, cash advance and rewards to simplify bill payments for both billers accounts and consumers.
Role Summary
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and functionality of our application across mobile and web platforms. You will work closely with product managers, developers, and designers to define, implement, and maintain a high-quality bar for all aspects of the product. Your focus will be on building robust automated test suites, conducting exploratory, regression testing (using Manual and Automation), and establishing scalable quality processes.
You will help shape our QA strategy and be hands-on in building tools and frameworks to enable faster, more reliable releases.
Skills
- Proficient in Manual and Regression Testing with a keen eye for detail and quality.
- Hands-on experience with Test Management tools such as Linear, JIRA, or similar platforms.
- Working knowledge of Automation Testing tools, including Maestro, Appium, Selenium, or equivalent frameworks which can automate the app flows.
- Familiarity with AI-based testing tools like Testim, Mabl, or AutonomIQ to support intelligent test automation and faster feedback loops.
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, test planning, and defect lifecycle management.
- Location: NYC (preferred) / Remote
What you'll do
- Analyze business and technical requirements.
- Perform manual, functional, regression, and exploratory testing.
- Write, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases
- Participate in QA and stakeholder meetings as required.
- Work closely with engineers and product managers to identify risk areas and develop testing plans
- Communicate outstanding issues, risks, and possible roadblocks to teams.
- Maintain up-to-date status of all assigned work in the internal systems (Jira, Confluence, notion etc.)
- Leading the QA team in designing QA test procedures and processes.
- Develop quality metrics and dashboards to communicate health of the product
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of end-to-end mobile app testing experience.
- Managerial experience preferred.
- High-level analytical skills and Critical thinker.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
- Working knowledge of quality engineering concepts and methodology.
- Full understanding of the testing process.
- Must have hands-on experience or exposure to AI-powered testing tools (e.g., intelligent test generation, bug prediction, auto-healing scripts etc)
- Understanding of Web and Mobile technologies.
- Experience in writing test documentation and reporting bugs.
- Must have experience working in consumer based companies.
Who you are
- Detail-oriented and passionate about product quality
- Clear communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proactive in identifying issues and pushing improvements
- Comfortable working in fast-paced startup environments
- Self-starter who thrives under minimal supervision
- Open to learning and growing with the team
Why Gerald?
- Huge opportunity. About a third of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and are struggling to pay their bills on time. About 100 million Americans are at risk of paying overdraft fees if they auto-pay their bills. We have the ability to help a lot of people profitably.
- Challenging problems. With every single customer that we onboard, it means we are dealing with millions of data records. The challenge is to scale up the product to handle so much data and process it efficiently, while taking all measures to ensure the security of the data. The goal is to make our system learn as quickly as possible so that it can give very accurate predictions when making suggestions related to consumers.
- A great team. Our founding team has deep expertise in financial services, product engineering, data science, and machine learning, as well as degrees from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and Yale. We try to take a scientific, data-driven approach whenever possible.
- Culture. Having worked at high growth, early stage startups in the past, our team understands the value of work-life balance. We take weekends off and go on paid vacations.
- Resources and growth. We're well capitalized with seed funding and are backed by Y Combinator and other top tier investors. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join us - you'll learn a lot, build cool products, and grow as our company scales!
What we offer
- Flexible working hours
- Generous paid vacation
- Team buildings in different countries once or twice per year
- Work from home opportunity
- Early team member equity and ownership in a fast-growing YC startup
