Senior QA Engineer
Remote
Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
We’re on a mission to protect society from fraud and money laundering. We’ve already protected over 1.5 million people through life’s big transactions, with a core aim to protect 3 million people by the end of 2024.
Fraud and regulation are rising, costing the UK economy over £100bn every year; this makes it more difficult for businesses to protect themselves and their clients - individuals like you and me - from fraud and money laundering.
Our co-founders Olly and Jack were led to this area when a friend was defrauded of £25K when buying their first property. At the time, anti-fraud technology didn’t exist, which meant that completing the anti-fraud checks required in these processes was largely manual. These big life moments should be exciting, but instead are often confusing and scary due to the painful process of completing these paper-based checks and the risk of fraud.
Thirdfort helps businesses to facilitate these anti fraud checks so that individuals know they can transact safely and seamlessly with professionals during these big transactions. Our anti-fraud platform provides a secure way for professionals in regulated sectors like Lawyers, Estate Agents and Accountants to transfer funds and verify sensitive information through app based document checks, facial recognition and open banking.
Over 1,300 businesses now trust Thirdfort to verify their clients. We are FCA regulated and have raised over $25m in capital from leading Fintech investors Breega and Element Ventures, as well as the founders of Zoopla, Funding Circle, Comply Advantage, Tessian, Fenergo and Fidel.
Engineering at Thirdfort
At Thirdfort, we’re working to build an outstanding engineering culture that empowers our team to do their best work. We have a culture which cultivates an honest and open environment, where everyone’s opinions are heard and valued.
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our engineering function, initially working with our Client Experience team to take our efforts on quality to the next level through documentation, manual testing and ultimately automated testing. Our Client Experience team is responsible for a detailed web portal that is used by our B2B clients- primarily lawyers and estate agents. We also have a Consumer Experience team that build out native iOS & Android mobile apps which are the key consumer facing interface.
In this role, you won’t just be joining a product team—you’ll be shaping the future of quality assurance at Thirdfort from the ground up. As our very first full-time QA hire, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build the QA function in your vision, transforming not only our processes but also the way we think about quality across the entire business. We’re looking for a passionate QA engineer who’s ready to take ownership, drive innovation, and make a lasting impact. Your work will be critical to our mission, setting the standards and practices that will elevate our engineering output. You will have the chance to own the QA function, champion best practices, and be at the heart of our engineering excellence journey.
Our Product and Tech teams are remote first and so this individual can be based anywhere in the UK. This does not mean though that our remote first team aren’t welcome in our offices as we value the times when we can come together in person. Ultimately we trust our team to work in the way that suits them best.
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will:
- Own and role model quality across engineering, bringing best practices in manual and eventually automated QA.
- Support delivery of our new web platform through manually quality assurance, documenting defects and helping our Client Experience team deliver the highest possible standard of software.
- Work with design and product to document and profile user journeys, defining user profiles and encouraging our engineers to put clients and consumers at the forefront of our thinking.
- Uphold our Security First value through rigorous testing.
- Represent our clients across the engineering function and liaise with the wider organisation including client support to support development of our product.
- Embody quality and role model this to the rest of the department, levelling up colleagues where necessary.
- Start and own our journey from manual QA to automated QA, collaborating with EMs and PMs to understand how and when we can do this.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has significant experience manually testing web applications, mobile devices and APIs.
- Has experience setting up and owning automated testing.
- Has experience working with both greenfield and legacy projects, identifying quality issues and suggesting improvements.
- Has worked effectively in a team with product owners, designers and other stakeholders and understands how best to gather requirements from these team members.
- Cares deeply about the UX, UI and accessibility of web platforms and knows how to feedback to design and engineers with these in mind.
- Has worked with internal APIs and understands how to influence teams building services the platform relies on.
- Has mentored other engineers on best practices and has represented quality across a business.
And has experience, or is keen to up-skill, in the following areas:
- Creating user profiles with different permission levels and representing different client needs.
- Analytics and error tracking platforms - we use Google Analytics and Grafana
Studies show that women and other less represented groups are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet every requirement. We believe in building a diverse team, valuing different skills and experiences and so if you don’t think you have all the requirements listed here but feel this could be a role and environment you’d thrive in, we would still love for you to apply
Life at Thirdfort:
- Driven by our values, our culture promotes a collaborative and open environment where Thirdforters can take ownership, have impact, and feel empowered when it comes to their growth and development. We understand the importance of our teams wellbeing and recognise a one-size fits all approach rarely works, that’s why we aim to provide the flexibility individuals need to work in the way that suits them, and their families, best.
- Compensation - £50K- £70K p.a. base salary
- Share options for all employees
- Flexible Working Hours
- Enhanced parental leave
- Customisable wellness budget and £250 WFH Budget
- Up to 30 days Working from Abroad
- Uncapped holiday
- Enhanced sick leave
- Private healthcare with our provider, AXA
- Regular company and team socials
- Uncapped budget for personal development
- Enhanced employer matching pension scheme with salary sacrifice options
- Access to our Cycle to Work scheme and our Electric Car Scheme
Our Benefits
We include compensation ranges on our job ads in the spirit of Operating Openly and in an effort to make our interview process more inclusive. We list a range that aligns with our internal banding which is based on varying factors including external benchmarking for our stage and size as a business. In terms of how we decide where an individual fits within the band, we’d take you through the interview process and assess you against our internal performance framework which gives us further clarity. We’ll also have open conversations with you throughout the interview process (starting in the first stage call) so we can be as open as possible about compensation as we understand how important it is to ensure we’re aligned.
We’ve created our benefits package to reflect Thirdfort’s mission and values. We place a strong focus on Security first given what we do, extending this to our team’s physical, mental and financial security to support them through their big life moments. Our benefits exist to empower our team, ensuring they feel supported and able to work in the way that enables them to do their best work.
When you join Thirdfort, you’ll get immediate access to our flexible employee benefits package that aims to support you across these areas:
We’re committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture where everyone has a chance to make a difference. We’re purposefully building a team of problem-solvers that reflect our values - which is why we hire from all backgrounds. If you're a curious, kind individual who takes ownership, you'll be a great Thirdforter.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let your dedicated Talent Manager know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
If you find this form difficult to navigate, please contact careers@thirdfort.com and we’ll do our best to find a way to work with you
