QA Automation, dLocal
Technical Referent
2+ days a week in office
Emerging markets payments platform
Be an early applicant
Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable global merchants to connect seamlessly with billions of emerging market users.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in QA Automation/Software Testing with strong, hands-on coding for test automation (Java)
- Solid experience with the Java stack, RestAssured, and JUnit or TestNG; proven framework design/scale experience
- Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and optimizing automated test stages
- Experience with non-functional tests (performance, security)
- Strong communication and technical leadership/mentoring across squads
- Nice to have: Knowledge of microservices/event-driven architectures; production monitoring/telemetry (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, Coralogix)
- Advanced English (mandatory)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a QA Automation Technical Referent to join IT Core in Argentina or Uruguay, operating as a Principal-level technical leader for quality and test automation
- You will own the evolution of our test automation framework and define our end-to-end testing strategy across cross-functional squads
- Acting as a technical referent for QA, you’ll mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and embed quality into delivery
- A key part of your impact will be to identify, prioritize, and deliver automation and process optimizations that reduce manual work, increase reliability, and accelerate releases
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and product to achieve consistent, scalable quality outcomes
- Own, maintain, and evolve our test automation framework (Java, RestAssured, JUnit/TestNG) to support backend services and APIs at scale
- Define and continuously improve the multi-layer testing strategy (unit, component/contract, integration, E2E), coverage, and risk-based prioritization
- Partner with cross-functional squads to embed quality by design, enabling fast feedback and reliable deployments
- Set, document, and enforce standards for test design, reliability, flakiness control, performance, and maintainability
- Review test designs and automation code (PRs/code reviews); ensure clean architecture and reusable patterns
- Mentor and coach QA and software engineers on testing best practices; lead workshops and pair sessions
- Lead the approach for non-functional testing (performance and security), coordinating with SRE/Sec stakeholders
- Improve CI/CD pipelines for test efficiency (parallelization, selective test runs, test data mgmt., quality gates)
- Identify and deliver automation opportunities (e.g., contract testing, mocks/service virtualization, reusable test data, observability hooks) to remove manual checks and reduce errors
- Track and communicate quality metrics (stability, performance signals) and use telemetry to spot gaps proactively
- Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs
Application process
- Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
Our take
It is clearly evident that there is a massive payments gap between developed countries and emerging economies, with consumers in many countries having little or no access to modern payment options. dLocal was established in Uruguay to address this gap, which it aims to close not only for its neighbouring countries but across the globe.
Through its unique "One dLocal" concept (one direct API, one platform, and one contract), global companies can accept payments, send pay-outs and settle funds globally without separately managing pay-in and pay-out processors. The company also supplies a defense suite and local issuing for virtual and physical pre-paid cards in Latin America, as well as tools for building payments infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces.
Since founding, the company has expanded across Uruguay, the USA, Israel, Brazil and Europe. The company has seen significant growth while remaining confident and committed to its original mission. A notable achievement is dLocal becoming a certified Payment Initiation Service Provider in Brazil, which means it can eliminate unnecessary steps for users in the region.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $357m
Company HQ
Tres Cruces, Montevideo, Montevideo Department
Leadership
Sergio Fogel
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-founded multiple companies, such as AstroPay, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Pedro Arnt
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at Allegro who advises at several firms. Previously EVP and CFO at MercadoLibre.com.
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