QA Lead

Equiti is a pioneering fintech firm and world-class provider of multi-asset fintech products - from liquidity solutions to in-house tech hubs to online trading platforms. With over 400 global specialists in 9 languages, Equiti provides clients with access to individual, professional, and institutional brokerage services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

At Equiti, we believe that financial opportunities can unlock potential for everyone, everywhere. We're on a mission to deliver accessible online trading products around the world through education and accessibility.

Think finance is stuffy Think again.

We see Equiti as a new breed of broker, and we are on the lookout for talented individuals who can perform and excel in a dynamic and innovative working environment. Our QA department would like to welcome a detail-oriented.

QA Lead in our office in Bengaluru

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to own and drive quality charters for critical trading and fintech platforms. This role is suited for someone with strong QA fundamentals, hands-on technical depth, a high ownership mindset, and the ability to lead a small team of QA engineers.

The ideal candidate should not view QA responsibility as ending with product release. For us, quality ownership continues into production through monitoring, defect analysis, customer feedback, and continuous improvement. Prior experience in the trading ecosystem, especially with trading terminals or broker platforms, will be an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the QA charter for one or more product areas across functional, integration, regression, automation, and production-readiness testing.
• Lead, manage, and mentor a small QA team of 3–4 QA engineers.
• Define test strategy, test plans, release validation approach, and risk-based testing priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, program, business, data, support, and operations teams to ensure quality is built into the product lifecycle.
• Understand stakeholder expectations and communicate quality status, release risks, trade-offs, dependencies, and blockers clearly.
• Drive early QA involvement in requirement discussions, design reviews, sprint planning, and production readiness reviews.
• Champion best QA practices across automation, test coverage, regression discipline, test data management, and defect prevention.
• Build and improve automation coverage across critical business flows, APIs, UI journeys, integrations, and regression suites.
• Analyze production defects, escaped issues, customer impact, and operational gaps to continuously improve test coverage and release confidence.
• Bring structure to ambiguous requirements by identifying risks, edge cases, assumptions, and validation needs.
• Ensure critical trading workflows are tested for correctness, reliability, data integrity, performance, and operational resilience.

Required Skills and Experience

• 8–10 years of hands-on QA experience, preferably in complex product or platform environments.
• Prior experience leading QA charters or managing a small QA team.
• Strong QA fundamentals across test planning, test design, exploratory testing, regression testing, defect lifecycle, and release validation.
• Hands-on experience with API, UI (mobile & web), integration, and regression automation.
• Exposure to at least one programming language for automation or tooling;
• Experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Karate, Postman, PyTest, or similar.
• Working knowledge of SQL, logs, dashboards, monitoring tools, CI/CD pipelines, and production debugging.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and convert unclear requirements into structured QA plans.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in articulating risks, dependencies, release readiness, and quality trade-offs.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience working across engineering, product, program, data, business, and support teams.
• Experience with production issue analysis, root cause analysis, defect leakage tracking, and continuous quality improvement.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery models.

Domain Advantage

• Experience in trading, broking, capital markets, fintech, or financial services domains.
• Experience testing trading terminals or platforms involving order placement, order lifecycle, positions, holdings, margins, limits, risk checks, market data, or settlement flows.
• Exposure to high-throughput, real-time, event-driven, or low-latency systems.

Perks

Each of our offices has its special perks; be it no ties, free lunches, charity events, or a hybrid work policy – but whenever you walk into an Equiti office, you're sure to see a friendly face. We encourage international collaborations and always keep our eyes open to how we can do more.

The benefits you can expect at your Equiti workplace include:

• Competitive salary package
• Performance-based bonus
• Medical insurance coverage for employees and family members
• Smart working options
• Employee wellness initiatives
• Personalized career development
• Company lunch in the office
• Regular company events

With energy, drive, and imagination, there's no limit to where your career can go at Equiti. With a diverse workforce and geographical spread of offices, we strongly support career development initiatives as well as provide a range of opportunities for professional and life experiences.

Equiti is an equal opportunity employer.

Equiti refers to a group of companies consisting of seven regulated financial services companies licensed to operate in the respective jurisdictions of their incorporation, in addition to our tech and marketing hubs. Equiti has presence in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.