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# Lead QA Engineer at Current

- **Company:** Current
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/current/jobs/8833780002

## Job description

## About the Role

As a Lead QA Engineer, you'll own testing strategy and quality standards across our most important work; Deciding what should be automated, what needs a human eye, where the real risk is hiding, and acting on it. You'll work hands-on across both manual and automated testing, splitting your time based on what a given release actually needs, while mentoring other engineers and acting as the go-to voice on quality across projects. You've got the critical thinking skills to chase down a hard bug yourself, know when to ask for help and delegate, and the range to set direction for how the whole team approaches quality. You seek to help your coworkers and do so regularly.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead test strategy and quality standards across multiple projects, deciding what warrants automated coverage versus focused manual and exploratory testing.
- Build and maintain automated test suites in Playwright, and use BrowserStack to validate compatibility across browsers, devices, and platforms.
- Define and run deep manual and exploratory testing on new, ambiguous, or high-change-rate work where automation isn't the right investment yet.
- Translate requirements into concrete test plans and acceptance criteria, catching gaps in the requirements themselves before they become gaps in the product.
- Act as the technical point of contact for quality with stakeholders: communicate risk, resolve disagreements about scope, and negotiate realistic testing timelines.
- Write clear, actionable defect reports in Jira, drive them to resolution, and verify fixes actually hold up under retest rather than just passing a second glance.
- Use Jira's linking and epic structure to keep testing work traceable, and flag workflow friction in the board with the team before it slows down the SDLC.
- Mentor other QA engineers in both manual technique and automation practice, including how to write tickets clearly and so well that they need no follow-up clarification, raising the bar on testing across the team, not just on your own projects.
- Step into any project at any phase to assess its quality risk and recommend a concrete path forward.
- Stay ahead of testing tools and practices worth adopting, and bring the right ones into real workflows deliberately.
- Operate and champion the use of AI tooling with an understanding that its output is useful, but not infallible. You treat AI as a tool, not a coworker.

Craft & Leadership Balance

Estimated 60% leadership, 40% craft.

## Qualifications

Required

- 6-8 years of experience in software quality assurance or testing, ideally with exposure to consulting or multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong, hands-on experience with Playwright for building and maintaining automated test suites and frameworks.
- Experience using BrowserStack (or a comparable cross-browser/device testing platform) to validate compatibility across platforms.
- Deep grounding in manual, exploratory, and regression testing, with the judgment to know when automation is and isn't the right investment.
- Proven ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, actionable test plans and acceptance criteria.
- Strong Jira practice: writing tickets so well that no follow-up or clarification is needed, using issue-linking for traceability, and spotting workflow friction before it becomes a team-wide problem.
- Experience testing across a range of CMS or SaaS platforms rather than a single stack, since our client environments vary and this role needs to move between them.
- Exceedingly strong communication skills, including presenting technical risk and testing tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. It cannot be stressed enough how important this item is: communication is the whole ballgame.
- Prior experience as a technical or testing lead on large or multi-phase projects.

## Preferred

- Familiarity with performance testing (e.g. Lighthouse) and accessibility testing (e.g. Axe, WCAG guidelines).
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with structured test-case formats (e.g. Gherkin) and test case management tooling.
- A track record of debugging and performance investigation at scale.
- Creation and implementation of SDLC processes and norms at project and team scales.

## Why Current

At Current, we believe the best digital work happens when strategy, design, production, and technology operate as one team. We partner with ambitious brands to create digital experiences that are thoughtful, scalable, and built to drive real impact.

We’re a remote-first agency with teams across the US, working collaboratively across websites, platforms, campaigns, CRM ecosystems, and digital product experiences. Our environment is fast-paced, highly collaborative, and built for people who enjoy solving complex technical challenges alongside smart, supportive teammates.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across a variety of clients and technologies, contribute to meaningful digital experiences, and help shape the future of engineering within a growing agency environment.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $85,000 - $110,000 annually. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

## About Current

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Current is a U.S. financial technology platform that provides mobile-first banking, credit building, savings, and cryptocurrency services to everyday Americans.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Stuart Sopp (CEO and Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer Fintech / Digital Banking
- **Target customers**: B2C – everyday Americans, including teens and underbanked individuals; no minimum income or age requirement.
- **Mission or purpose**: “To improve financial outcomes” by providing affordable, integrated financial tools that help members make progress with their money, regardless of paycheck size.

## Products & Services
- **Current Banking Account**: Fee-free checking/savings account with early paycheck access (up to 2 days), fee-free overdraft, and 40,000+ fee-free ATMs. (Service)
- **Build (Secured Credit Card)**: No credit check or upfront deposit; helps members build credit history through monthly payments, managed with a single balance. (Service)
- **Savings Pods**: Savings accounts with annual boosts up to 4.00% APY. (Service)
- **Crypto Trading**: Buy and sell dozens of cryptocurrencies directly from spending balances with no trading fees. (Service)
- **Paycheck Advances**: Up to $750 deposited directly into the account (eligibility-based). (Service)
- **Teen Banking**: Custodial accounts for members under 18 with automatic allowances, instant transfers, and real-time alerts. (Service)
- **P2P Transfers**: Send money to anyone on the platform. (Service)
- **Money Management Tools**: Budgeting, spending insights, and instant notifications. (Service)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.5 billion as of June 2026 (Series E round) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/current)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $663.41M; annual revenue not publicly disclosed (spend-based model driven by interchange fees) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/current)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Springcoast Partners (lead, Series E), Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Avenir, Foundation Capital, Wellington Management, Sapphire Ventures, QED Investors, General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. Banking partners: Choice Financial and Cross River Bank (Members FDIC). Card network: Visa. [current.com/about-us](https://current.com/about-us/)
- **Growth Signals**: Three consecutive years of >70% growth; approaching profitability in 2026; 6 million members; expanded financing partnership with Cross River; raised $80M Series E in June 2026; positioning for public market readiness. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/current)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary core banking technology** – built and maintained in-house, allowing full integration of features, direct relationships with partner banks and Visa, and faster product innovation.
- **Spend-based business model** – revenue from interchange fees rather than traditional deposit-based banking, enabling fee-free and lower-cost services for members.
- **No physical branches** – keeps costs low, passing value back to members.
- **Unified platform** – single spending balance for all products (banking, credit, crypto, savings), eliminating silos common in other fintechs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Profitability & public market readiness**: Current is scaling operational governance and financial profile to become a public company, targeting profitability in 2026.
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to grow its integrated suite of credit, liquidity, and savings products, especially through the expanded Cross River partnership.
- **Member growth**: Leveraging strong unit economics and >70% growth trajectory to acquire and retain members.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: “Members are at the heart of everything we do” – focus on improving financial outcomes for everyday Americans.
- **Work environment**: New York-based team; likely hybrid/office presence (NYC headquarters). [current.com/careers](https://current.com/careers/)
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive salary, equity, flexible vacation policy, commuter benefits, discretionary bonus program, medical/dental/vision insurance.
- **Engineering culture**: Building proprietary core banking technology; opportunity to work on integrated fintech products at scale (6M members) with a path to IPO.

## Sources
1. [current.com/about-us](https://current.com/about-us/)
2. [current.com/careers](https://current.com/careers/)
3. [current.com](https://current.com/)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/current)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/current/__N4LwB7P3YpXRjBzHEQDbdTr93pYZRm-dqDRw9QL1qJY)

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