QA Engineer (Remote in Latvia)

QA Engineer (Fintech \& Investment Platforms)

📍 Latvia (Hybrid / Remote)

A

growing international fintech and financial services organisation

is looking to hire a

QA Engineer

to take ownership of quality across its Investment Technologies function.

This is a

high-impact, newly created role

, offering the opportunity to build and shape QA practices from the ground up within a complex, multi-system environment.

The Role

You will act as the

primary quality owner

across investment-related platforms, ensuring strong release confidence, reducing production issues, and improving how business requirements are validated and delivered.

This role is ideal for someone who

thinks in end-to-end business flows

, understands system dependencies, and enjoys working closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

process end-to-end, coordinating with business stakeholders and managing defect tracking

• Participate in

requirements discussions and user story refinement

, identifying gaps and defining clear acceptance criteria

• Build and maintain

test plans, test cases, and checklists

across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing

• Validate

complex business workflows

across multiple systems and integrations

• Verify data accuracy using

API responses, SQL queries, and source data comparisons

• Log, prioritise, and track defects with clear documentation and follow through to resolution
• Test

role-based access controls, entitlements, and approval workflows

• Lead

smoke, regression, and release validation testing

before deployments

• Build and maintain reusable

release test packs

• Contribute to the development of

QA standards, processes, and (over time) automation coverage

What We’re Looking For

• 2–5 years of experience in

QA, primarily manual and functional testing

• Strong understanding of

UI testing, multi-step workflows, validation rules, and error handling

• Experience testing

integrated systems where changes impact downstream functionality

• Working knowledge of

REST APIs, SQL, and browser developer tools

• Experience in

fintech, banking, payments, or brokerage

, or strong motivation to develop domain knowledge quickly

• Strong experience with

defect reporting, test case management, and QA documentation

• Familiarity with tools such as

Jira, Linear, Postman, Swagger

, or similar

• Comfortable working closely with

developers, business stakeholders, and operations teams

• Experience with

role-based access and entitlement testing in regulated environments

• Exposure to

test automation tools (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)

is a plus

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to

own and shape the QA function

within a growing fintech environment

• Exposure to

complex, integrated investment and financial platforms

• Collaborative, cross-functional working environment
• Flexible working model

(hybrid / remote options)

• Competitive salary and

performance-based incentives

• Strong potential for

career growth and impact