Senior Quality Engineer

Description We are At Cross River, we're building the financial infrastructure that powers global innovation. With our cutting-edge suite of embedded payments, cards, and lending solutions, we enable millions of businesses and consumers to transact seamlessly and securely. With 900+ employees worldwide and an R&D center of over 180 employees in Jerusalem - we’re reshaping how financial technology is developed and delivered. . The Role We're looking for a highly technical Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality practices within one of Cross River's core engineering teams. Who You Are • A highly technical Quality Engineer with extensive experience driving software quality across the entire development lifecycle. • An expert in API testing and test automation, with strong test design and risk-based testing skills. • A strategic thinker who can balance hands-on execution with defining broader quality practices, processes, standards, and testing strategies. • A collaborative partner who works closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to build quality by design. • An experienced reviewer and mentor who can provide actionable feedback on automation code, testing approaches, and engineering best practices. • A proactive problem solver who is passionate about reliability, continuous improvement, and root-cause analysis. • A strong communicator who can influence engineering teams and advocate for quality-first thinking. • An innovator who embraces AI-powered tools to improve testing efficiency, productivity, and coverage. What You’ll Actually Be Doing • Own the quality of everything your team delivers, setting the quality bar and helping developers consistently meet it. • Act as the team's quality leader, defining and driving testing strategy, quality standards, validation approaches, and engineering quality practices. • Champion a quality-engineering mindset where quality is built into design, development, testing, and deployment rather than treated as a final validation step. • Assess new features for risk and ensure appropriate validation and test coverage for critical functionality. • Partner closely with developers, who own and implement much of the automated test coverage, providing guidance, standards, reviews, and hands-on support where needed. • Create comprehensive test plans and risk-based validation strategies. • Define testing architecture, frameworks, quality gates, and CI-integrated testing practices. • Review automation code and provide technical guidance on test reliability, maintainability, and effectiveness. • Contribute directly to test automation efforts when needed. • Monitor, diagnose, and resolve CI pipeline failures to maintain engineering productivity. • Analyze quality metrics, production health indicators, and reliability trends. • Drive improvements in product reliability, release confidence, and overall engineering quality. • Lead root-cause investigations and drive corrective and preventive actions. • Promote quality best practices through documentation, knowledge sharing, and ongoing mentorship. • Evaluate and leverage AI-powered tools and approaches to improve testing efficiency, coverage, and productivity. • Serve as the team's quality subject matter expert, helping shape technical decisions related to testability, observability, validation strategy, and release confidence. • Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and DevOps to shape the future of quality at Cross River. Requirements What You Bring to the Table • Native-level fluency in both English and Hebrew (written and verbal) - Must • Extensive hands-on experience testing and automating APIs. • Strong experience with test strategy creation, test design, and risk-based testing methodologies. • Proven experience reviewing test automation code and providing actionable feedback. • Experience designing and evolving test frameworks and CI-integrated testing pipelines. • Ability to define scalable quality processes and testing standards. • Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and quality engineering principles. • Practical experience leveraging AI tools within testing and quality workflows. • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams and drive adoption of quality best practices. Nice to Have • Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, Reqnroll, or SpecFlow. • Experience working with payments, fintech, banking, or other financial systems. • Experience with observability tools and practices, including logs, metrics, traces, alerting, New Relic, Elasticsearch, and similar platforms. • Experience working in highly regulated or high-scale production environments Why You’ll Love Working Here • Flexible hybrid work model: three days a week at our Jerusalem office • Monthly wellness reimbursement – from therapy to gel manicure, it's up to you • Full Keren Hishtalmut, private health and dental insurance • Volunteer days, donation matching, Yoga and Pilates • A supportive, collaborative culture that puts our people first Next Step Hit Apply! Privacy Notice: Cross River https://www.crossriver.com/legal/privacy-policy-crt