Quality Engineering Lead

Tereina is on a mission to revolutionize B2B payments. We’re a well-funded, early-stage startup supported by one of the largest software companies in the world, SAP. We’re building cutting-edge solutions that will transform the way businesses move money. Our platform handles cross-border payment processing, counter party management, bank account administration, and compliance workflows for enterprise customers worldwide.

Quality engineering at Tereina is about earning confidence in every change we ship — from test strategy and quality tooling through release readiness and the quality evidence our partners and regulators rely on. Our goal is a zero-touch payment process, where payments flow straight through from initiation to the beneficiary without manual intervention. That only works if the software behind it holds up release after release, across every environment.

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Engineering, the Quality Engineering Lead owns quality across Tereina’s software delivery. You will work as a peer to the Engineering Manager – Payment Team, the Engineering Manager – Platform, and the UX Engineering Manager. You will define our test strategy, build and evolve the quality tooling our engineers rely on, and make sure our deploy and release cycle stays free of regressions.

You will partner with engineering leadership to shape how we deliver software and give the whole company a clear view of quality across every environment, from development through production.

This is a strategic role with a hands-on core. You will set the direction for quality across Tereina and lead by example — writing tests, improving tooling, and digging into failures yourself. As the functional owner of quality, you will work with our engineering teams, distributed across time zones, who share that ownership and help you reach it. When a partner certification or go-live calls for it, you will also step into project coordination with our banking and partner organizations, so that our compliance and regulatory posture is transparent to everyone who depends on it.

• Test Strategy: Define and own Tereina’s test strategy for delivering software — what we test, at which stage, and what “ready to release” means for our payment flows. Take a risk-based approach: focus deep testing on high-stakes areas such as money movement and data integrity, and let automated checks clear low-risk changes quickly.

• Quality Tooling: Build and continuously improve the tooling that lets engineers test early and often: automated test suites, simulators for our banking and payment partners, test data management, and reporting that shows what passed, what failed, and why.

• Regression-Free Releases: Make sure every deploy and release protects what already works. Establish the checks and release criteria that catch regressions before they reach customers, and give clear go/no-go recommendations to the engineering managers who own each service.

• Performance & Resilience: Verify that our payment flows hold up under load and recover gracefully when things go wrong — a slow bank, a partner outage, or a spike in volume — so payments keep flowing without manual intervention.

• Delivery Process: Collaborate with engineering leadership on adjustments to how we plan, build, and release software, and represent quality in planning and design reviews, so that quality is built in from the start rather than inspected at the end.

• Quality Visibility: Monitor quality outcomes across all environments with a small set of meaningful measures — such as the share of payments that need manual intervention, defects that escape to production, failed changes, and release readiness — and share them openly.…