QA Engineer II

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility.

We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future.

Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team.

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Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

Acorns is seeking a highly skilled and relentlessly customer‑focused Quality Assurance Engineer II to be a QA champion for our core Banking offerings. This role will ensure that Acorns Banking products—including high‑interest checking, high‑interest emergency savings, check deposit, and paycheck deposit—are accurate, transparent, and instill trust and confidence with our customer base. You’ll be embedded within the Banking Engineering team, reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, and joining the broader Quality Assurance Engineering team.

Acorns is a remote‑first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

• Own the quality strategy: maintain existing test cases in the automation suite to ensure they are stable, available, and consistently run in alignment with organizational metrics.
• Drive automation: meet the goal of increasing strategic automation coverage to 50% across all test types (unit, snapshot, integration, e2e) within your first six months, highly encouraged to use agentic and generative AI technology to achieve efficiency and scale.
• AI‑First acceleration: proactively explore, prototype, and implement AI and automation tools (e.g., test case generation, anomaly detection) to maximize testing efficiency, quality, and velocity.
• Share knowledge: document and evangelize AI/ML‑driven wins and best practices across the entire QA team and wider Engineering organization to accelerate overall productivity and maintain our AI‑first culture.
• Reduce risk: confidently identify problems and propose solutions, taking on projects that identify and mitigate risk while measuring software quality. Your success will be measured, in part, by an improvement in escape rate / reducing incidents.
• Technical delivery: design and deliver test plans for a significant component, set of features, or service within the Banking domain. This includes creating and executing test plans for complex test scenarios.
• Integrate CI/CD: contribute to the team's goal of fully adopting Acorns' Continuous Delivery (CD) strategy in the next six months.
• Cross‑functional partnership: partner heavily with Product Marketing and Data Analytics/Engineering teams to ensure comprehensive product testing and data integrity.
• Mentorship: after six months, you will be expected to formally mentor a QAE through an internal process or present banking domain knowledge to the wider QA team.
• Lead emerging tech: collaborate on developing and assuring emerging technology in the banking space, helping to solve complex technical challenges for the team.

• You are relentless in protecting our customers, curious, and ready to contribute to the new vision for Banking.
• 4–6+ years of software testing experience.
• 2+ years of dedicated experience in the Banking or Fintech domain.
• Proficiency in backend/API testing as a primary focus, utilizing Type Script and Graph
  
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• Proficiency in Mobile testing (secondary focus), utilizing Kotlin/Espresso and Swift/XCUI.
• Automated testing experience across various types (unit, integration, e2e).
• Experience with at least one…