QA Engineer III

The posting, as Zafin wrote it

Zafin is an AI platform company helping regulated institutions modernize how critical work is designed, governed, and delivered. Our technology enables organizations to move faster while maintaining the governance, accountability, and control required in highly regulated environments.

Our portfolio includes Zafin AIOS , an agent orchestration platform for governed AI work; the Zafin Banking Platform , which helps banks modernize product, pricing, offers, billing, loyalty, and relationship management; and Zafin IO , an integration platform that connects data, systems, and workflows across complex enterprise environments.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Zafin partners with leading financial institutions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. As AI transforms the future of financial services, we're building the platforms that help regulated organizations adopt AI responsibly and at scale.

What is the Opportunity?

The QA Engineer III will be responsible for leading and executing functional quality assurance activities for complex banking and financial applications. The role requires strong hands-on manual testing expertise, practical automation experience, thorough test documentation skills, and solid database validation capabilities. The engineer will own end-to-end test coverage across backend processes, integrations, APIs, file-based workflows, and data validations, while working closely with developers, business analysts, product teams, and other QA engineers to ensure release quality.

What will you do?

• Own functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing for complex applications and backend workflows.
• Analyze business and technical requirements, identify test scenarios, assess test coverage, and highlight requirements or design gaps early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Create and maintain high-quality test documentation including test plans, detailed test scenarios, test cases, traceability matrices, test evidence, execution reports, and release-quality summaries.
• Perform database and backend validation using SQL to verify data integrity, transformations, transactional accuracy, and downstream processing results.
• Validate APIs and service integrations using tools such as Postman and support automation of repeatable API and backend regression scenarios.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests using appropriate UI, API, or backend automation frameworks; contribute to improving regression efficiency and coverage.
• Perform defect analysis and triage, provide clear reproduction details and supporting evidence, and collaborate with engineering teams through resolution and retesting.
• Validate file-based workflows, scheduled jobs, and inter-system data exchanges, including reconciliation of source and target results.
• Estimate testing effort, plan test execution, identify delivery risks, and communicate testing status and quality concerns to project and QA leads

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• Expected Salary Range: $110-150K; we hire into multiple career levels for this role based on a candidate's experience, skills and demonstrated capabilities.
• At Zafin, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive rewards program is designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance, including:
• Fully company-paid health benefits
• Annual bonus opportunities
• Generous vacation and holidays
• RRSP matching
• Employer-paid insurance coverage
• Wellness resources
• Extensive paramedical benefits, and more
• Vacancy Status: Open position(s) to be filled
• Mode of Work: Hybrid
• Use of AI: Zafin may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or other forms of automated technology to screen and/or assess applicants for this position. Zafin will not utilize AI for conducting interviews and/or making hiring decisions.

What’s in it for you

Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers

Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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