From Clara's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation.
More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.
We are looking for a QA Automation Lead to own Clara's test automation strategy, frameworks, and quality standards. This is a technical leadership role for someone who sets the automation bar across web, API, and mobile surfaces — not a classic people-manager seat. You partner with Engineering Directors, pod leads, and Product to make automation the default path to release confidence, while mentoring QA and engineering teammates who build and adopt the frameworks.
The Role
You are the technical authority for QA automation at Clara. You own the strategy, architecture, and reliability of the automation platform (Playwright-based web/API frameworks, CI integration, reporting, and enablement) so pods can ship with confidence without QA becoming a bottleneck.
What You Own
Automation strategy
— Define and evolve the automation roadmap (test pyramid, risk-based prioritization, shift-left practices) aligned with product delivery across surfaces such as payments, onboarding, cards, and accounts.
Framework ownership
— Own architecture decisions for shared automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright for web/API; Appium/Wdio where mobile automation applies). Set coding standards, review patterns, and maintainability rules for test code.
Quality standards
— Establish org-wide definitions for release-blocking coverage, flakiness thresholds, and what must be automated vs. explored manually. Protect trust in automated results.
Stakeholder partnership
— Align with Engineering Directors, Pod Leads, Product, and Platform/Infra on capacity trade-offs, environment/test-data dependencies, and adoption plans so pods own execution while QA owns the capability.
Mentoring & enablement
— Coach QA engineers and developers on automation craft, code review, and adoption of shared tooling. Run technical hiring signal for automation-related roles.
CI/CD & observability
— Drive integration of automation into GitHub Actions (smoke on PR, regression on deploy), reporting (e.g. Allure/Qase or internal test-manager), and actionable failure triage.
What You Don't Own
Formal people management (1:1s, performance ratings, compensation) unless explicitly scoped with your manager — that remains with Engineering/QA Directors.
Per-pod feature delivery ownership; you enable pods, you do not absorb every manual validation request.
Technical Skills
6+ years in software quality engineering with deep automation experience (not manual-only QA).
Hands-on ownership of test automation frameworks for web and API (Playwright strongly preferred; Cypress, Selenium, or
ISTQB or equivalent; prior QA Tech Lead or SDET Lead title.
Disclaimer: "Clara is committed to hybrid work, combining the flexibility of remote work with the collaboration, connection, and professional development benefits that come from working together in the office. The team doesn't have fixed in-office days, but we encourage our Claridians to come into the office based on business or team needs."
Where we work
This is a remote-first role: you'll work from home day to day. You'll ramp up in person with the team, and come together in person for team moments, events and customer visits through the year.
Why Clara
A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.
How we work
Clarity
— Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
Simplicity
— If it can be simpler, it should be.
Ownership
— We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
Pride
— We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
ABC (Always Be Changing)
— We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
Inclusivity
— Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.
If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.
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