QA Engineer – Lending & Risk Decisioning Testing
Astra Tech Tbilisi, Georgia
Public Relations and Communications Services · 11-50 employees
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About the role
The role involves designing and executing comprehensive test strategies for lending products, including API automation and end-to-end workflow validation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability of risk decisioning systems and backend microservices.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of QA experience with a strong background in backend and API automation within the lending or credit sector. A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field is required, along with proficiency in Python or Java and SQL.
Full description
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer with strong experience in lending or credit-based financial products to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our backend systems. The role will focus on testing end-to-end lending workflows, developing API automation frameworks, and validating risk decisioning logic across complex, distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute comprehensive test strategies for lending products, covering functional, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Test the full lending lifecycle, including loan applications, approvals, disbursements, repayments, and collections.
- Develop and maintain scalable API automation frameworks using Python (pytest) or Java, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Build automated regression suites covering critical business workflows, edge cases, negative scenarios, and exception handling.
- Validate backend microservices, transaction integrity, database consistency, asynchronous processing, and message-driven workflows.
- Test risk decisioning systems, including credit eligibility, approval rules, credit limits, and risk policies.
- Collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, and DevOps teams to identify quality risks and ensure reliable releases.
- Investigate complex defects, perform root cause analysis, and improve overall test coverage and automation efficiency.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of QA experience, with strong hands-on expertise in backend, API automation, and integration testing.
- Mandatory experience testing lending or credit-based products, such as personal loans, consumer lending, BNPL, or other credit products.
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end lending lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience developing API automation frameworks using Python (pytest) or Java.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with database validation and data reconciliation.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, distributed microservices, and asynchronous messaging systems.
- Experience integrating automated regression testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent spoken and written English, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing credit decision engines, credit scoring, eligibility rules, credit limits, risk policies, or risk-based pricing.
- Familiarity with platforms such as SAS Decision Manager or similar automated decisioning solutions.
- Experience with decision rule validation, regression testing, and comparing legacy and new decision engines.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot for test automation, test case generation, and debugging.
- Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
- Experience testing high-volume, high-availability, and transaction-intensive backend systems.
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