Senior Quality Engineer
Cross River Bank · Jerusalem · Posted 2026-11-08
Description
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. .
The Role
We're looking for a highly technical Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality practices within one of Cross River's core engineering teams.
Who You Are
- 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.
What You’ll Actually Be Doing
- 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.
Requirements
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
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- 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
Next Step
Hit Apply!