QA Engineer II

Role Overview

QA Engineer II (Banking) at Acorns. You’ll be a QA champion embedded within the Banking Engineering team, ensuring Acorns Banking products are accurate, transparent, and reliable. The role is remote-first, with optional office access in Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Own quality strategy and execution for critical banking services in a Scrum-based Agile environment.
• Maintain and stabilize automation test cases in the automation suite, aligned with organizational quality metrics.
• Drive automation coverage toward 50% across test types (unit, snapshot, integration, e2e) within the first six months.
• AI-first acceleration: prototype and implement AI/automation to improve testing efficiency, quality, and velocity (e.g., test case generation, anomaly detection).
• Reduce risk by identifying problems, proposing solutions, and working on projects that mitigate risk and improve software quality; success includes reducing escape rate/incidents.
• Design and execute test plans for significant banking components/features and complex scenarios.
• Contribute to CI/CD adoption and team progress toward Acorns’ Continuous Delivery strategy in the next six months.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Marketing and Data Analytics/Engineering to ensure product testing and data integrity.
• Mentorship: after six months, mentor another QA engineer or present banking domain knowledge to the wider QA team.
• Lead emerging tech efforts to support and assure emerging banking technologies.

Requirements / What You Will Bring

• Strong focus on protecting customers and quality (the posting continues beyond the provided excerpt).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using agentic/generative AI or AI-driven automation in testing.
• Banking or financial services QA experience.