Senior Quality Engineer

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. . We're looking for a highly technical Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality practices within one of Cross River's core engineering teams. 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. 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. 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 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 Hit Apply! https://www.crossriver.com/legal/privacy-policy-crt