.About TalaTala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC's Disruptor 50 five years in a row, CNBC's World's Top Fintech Company, Forbes' Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our mission.By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.The RoleWe are looking for a Sr. Software Development in Test who is passionate about using cutting-edge test automation tools and technologies to create robust test frameworks and test suites to speed up the product delivery process without compromising quality and performance. This hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves role will ensure quality control across Tala's backend services and mobile applications in multiple markets.What You'll DoDevelop test automation suites to expand test coverage to all our microservices and integrate it into regression and release processIntegrate automated tests execution into the software development processSupport the team for all releases and communicate issues to product in a timely mannerMaintain, review, propose, and implement improvements to existing frameworks, tools, and processesContinuous learning of new tools and helping the team optimize the test framework consistentlySupport and collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) in identifying automation areas to further increase the quality of our productWhat You'll NeedMinimum 6+ years of experience in building test tools and frameworks using Groovy/Kotlin/Java/Scala, Jenkins or similar CI-CD tools, Shell Scripting, Linux/Mac OSX for either backend or frontend servicesExperience with BDD testing paradigm and one of the Behavior Driven Testing frameworks such as Spock or JBehave or CucumberKnowledge in microservices and automation.Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy