Senior Software Quality Engineer

PagBank

. Serve as a technical reference in Software Quality, promoting testing best practices and a quality culture across teams.

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeSão Paulo • BrazilSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Software Quality Assurance, focusing on test automation, integration testing, and quality metrics. Proficient in applying Shift Left practices and utilizing observability tools to ensure high-quality software delivery.

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Test Automation Using Rest Assured, Cypress, PlaywrightExperience Testing REST APIs Using Postman, SwaggerKnowledge of Microservices Architecture and APIsExperience with CI/CD Pipelines and ToolsExperience in Financial Services or Payments Sector

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Hard Skills

Test Planning and DesignFunctional and Non-Functional TestingSQL and Database QueryingIntegration TestingKnowledge of BDD, Gherkin, and CucumberPerformance Testing Using JMeter or GatlingKnowledge of Asynchronous Systems and MessagingExperience with Docker and KubernetesAutomated Analysis of FailuresUse of AI Tools for Test Automation

Soft Skills

Collaboration with DevelopersContinuous Improvement MindsetAnalytical Problem Solving

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaDatadogNew RelicKibanaSplunkJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitKafkaRabbitMQ

Certifications & Qualifications

Certifications Related to Software Quality

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesPaymentsCollectionsCredit SectorsQuality Gates

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCypressDockerDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsJMeterKafkaKotlinKubernetesRabbitMQSplunkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a technical reference in Software Quality, promoting testing best practices and a quality culture across teams.
Actively participate in business and technical refinement sessions, contributing to the early identification of risks and functional and non-functional gaps.
Apply Shift Left practices, contributing from the earliest stages of solution design to ensure quality from the start of development.
Plan testing strategies and define scenarios, acceptance criteria, and appropriate coverage for new features.
Lead test automation initiatives, prioritizing critical scenarios and those with the greatest business value.
Perform functional, integration, exploratory, regression, and non-functional testing.
Ensure the quality of distributed solutions, synchronous and asynchronous integrations, APIs, and microservices.
Support developers in building and maintaining unit, component, and integration tests.
Conduct technical analyses using logs, metrics, traces, database queries, and observability tools.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in quality processes, tools, and practices.
Support the definition and tracking of product quality indicators and metrics.
Investigate and address incidents, promoting preventive actions to avoid recurrence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Experience planning, designing, executing, and automating tests.
Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
Experience automating tests using Rest Assured, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent frameworks.
Experience with BDD, Gherkin, and Cucumber.
Knowledge of programming logic and languages such as Java or Kotlin.
Experience with SQL and relational and non-relational databases.
Ability to write queries and validate data directly in databases.
Experience with integration testing and end-to-end flow validation.
Experience using mocks, stubs, and simulators to validate external dependencies.
Knowledge of microservices architecture, APIs, gateways, and distributed integrations.
Knowledge of asynchronous systems and messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, or similar technologies).
Experience validating events, topics, queues, and asynchronous processing.
Experience with observability and troubleshooting using Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Kibana, Splunk, or similar tools.
Ability to investigate failures through logs, metrics, traces, and monitoring.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent solutions.
Experience with Git and version control strategies.
Knowledge of non-functional testing, including performance, load, stress, capacity, and resilience testing.
Experience with tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience validating integrations involving cloud services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and equivalent services.
Experience with Quality Gates and quality metrics.
Experience working in high-scale environments and distributed architectures.
Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with Contract Testing (Pact or similar tools).
Knowledge of SRE practices and system reliability.
Certifications related to Software Quality.
Experience in the financial services, payments, collections, or credit sectors.
Use of Artificial Intelligence to generate test cases.
Use of AI agents and copilots to support requirements analysis and scenario design.
Assisted creation of test automation using AI tools.
Automated analysis of failures, logs, and execution evidence.
Experience with GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar tools.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meal and/or food allowance.
Health and dental insurance.
Life insurance.
Partnerships with TotalPass and ZenKlub.
Extended maternity and paternity leave.
Childcare assistance.
Discounts of up to 50% on graduate programs and MBAs at leading institutions, such as FIA, FAAP, and PUCRS.
No dress code.
Birthday day off.
Baby Gift: a gift for newborns.