Senior Mobile QA Engineer

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

Cash is looking for a Software Mobile QA Engineer with strong technical, problem-solving, and communication skills to ensure the quality of mobile applications that millions of customers use every day. You will be responsible for understanding and analyzing requirements, and working closely with members of the release management and quality organizations, as well as product and engineering teams, to create smoke, regression, and feature test suites. We operate in a fast-paced environment that relies heavily on strong communication and collaboration between Client Engineers and interdepartmental QA teams.

You Will

• Collaborate with developers and peers to own the quality and rollout of features, leading test efforts across multiple product areas.
• Demonstrate skill in debugging, troubleshooting logs, and applying analytical thinking to systematically assess project quality and automation failures.
• Work with QA & Release Managers to certify a release and investigate issues from the Early Access Program.
• Drive QA Strategy and Test Planning for exhaustive testing of new features with cross-functional teams, ensuring no slippage of product requirements.
• Define and track important quality metrics to guide quality improvements organization-wide.
• Escalate critical bugs and work with developers to prioritize fixes.
• Work across multiple development teams and organizations to influence software architecture and design, with an emphasis on ensuring the validation of all features and functions necessary for user success.
• Balance multiple efforts simultaneously and meet strict deadlines.
• Champion a remarkable customer experience within product engineering through product and process improvements.

You Have

• 4-6+ years of software test and quality engineering experience.
• Ability to identify, classify, prioritize and drive closure of issues in multiple products and software releases.
• Experience working as a strong partner on a cross-functional team.
• Passionate about Quality and breaking the app to catch all issues during internal testing. 
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum development environment.
• Knowledge of Client/Server Architecture and mobile domain. 
• A high degree of intellectual curiosity, with a knack for devising innovative techniques to discover software issues.
• Experience working through technical issues to both engineers and product managers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience validating and shipping successful weekly releases on mobile.
• Experience and interest in developing a team, strategy and set of practices in the early phase of an organization’s growth
• Managed or partnered with contractors and/or test vendors.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on yo