Key Facts

Remote From:

Anywhere

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English, Spanish

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Leadership
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Communication
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Strategic Planning
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Mentorship

Roles & Responsibilities

7+ years in QA, with 3+ years in QA leadership or automation roles
Strong experience building automation frameworks from scratch
Deep knowledge of API, backend, and integration testing
Experience with CI/CD, microservices, and asynchronous systems

Requirements:

Build and own the QA automation and quality strategy end-to-end
Design automated testing for high-impact financial flows (payments, billing, reconciliation, SIS)
Partner with AI engineers to implement AI-assisted test generation and anomaly detection
Define QA standards, release criteria, and quality gates

Marathon Ventures

Private Equity & Venture Capital

About Marathon Ventures

Marathon Ventures is a talent focused venture firm, specializing in B2B platforms: Marketplaces, SaaS, and embedded fintech in Latin America. We invest $500K to $1M into $1M to $3M seed rounds. We offer 3 core products: I. Talent Agency: Connecting top talent to employers in the region.II. Advisory Matching: Matching senior operators with advisory opportunities.III. Smart Capital: Bridging large economic groups and late-stage investors with experienced seed stage teams.If you are raising a seed round or need help recruiting, thinking about your next job or kickstarting your advisory career, please visit marathonvc.com for more information.

Company type: Small startup

Industry: Private Equity & Venture Capital

Founded: 2018

Company size: 2 - 10

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Job description

About the Company

We are partnering with a high-growth, well-funded education & fintech technology company building a finance-first operating system for schools across Latin America. The platform unifies payments, billing, collections, SIS, and academic workflows, supporting thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of families.

The company is scaling rapidly, with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and AI-driven quality.

Role Overview

We are looking for a QA Engineering Lead to build the Quality function from the ground up.

This is a foundational leadership role responsible for defining QA strategy, automation frameworks, AI-assisted testing systems, and quality standards across all mission-critical financial and operational workflows.

You will work closely with backend, platform, and AI teams to embed intelligent testing, anomaly detection, and automated triage into CI/CD pipelines—directly impacting platform stability and customer trust at scale.

What Youll Do

Build and own the QA automation and quality strategy end-to-end
Design automated testing for high-impact financial flows (payments, billing, reconciliation, SIS)
Partner with AI engineers to implement AI-assisted test generation and anomaly detection
Define QA standards, release criteria, and quality gates
Embed quality practices early in development (shift-left)
Hire, mentor, and scale the QA team over time