QA Automation Manager (AI)

Location: Mexico City or Guadalajara, Mexico. Currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup.

Company

Félix is a hyper-growth Series C fintech building an AI-powered conversational financial companion for Latinos in the US, using real-time financial infrastructure, remittances, and AI and crypto rails.

What you will do

• Lead and develop QA Leads and a growing team of QA Automation engineers, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, and career development.
• Define the end-to-end quality automation strategy, quality gates, acceptance criteria, and release-readiness standards across products.
• Own automation framework and CI/CD roadmaps for UI, API, and performance testing; lead architecture and tooling decisions.
• Drive performance testing, reliable regression and smoke suites, test-health monitoring, and scalable automation infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering, product, and platform leaders to improve testability, release velocity, and production health.
• Track quality metrics, oversee defect triage and root-cause analysis, and promote a quality-first culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of QA Automation experience, including 2+ years leading or managing QA Automation engineers.
• Strong hands-on automation experience, from high-level strategy through technical implementation.
• Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining AI-powered QA tools and solutions.
• Hands-on experience leading performance testing projects.
• Python experience, including pytest.
• Experience with UI, API, and performance automation frameworks, such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Experience defining test strategies, quality metrics, and release processes for complex products.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable aligning engineering, product, and leadership. Fluent or advanced English required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Equivalent competencies will also be considered.

Nice to have

• Experience testing chatbots, LLM-based products, or third-party provider API integrations.
• Experience with Docker, event-driven architectures, load testing, or security testing.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments.
• Experience at a high-growth startup scaling a QA function.
• Spanish.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work currently, with a future transition to a hybrid setup.
• Competitive salary, initial stock options grant, and annual performance bonus.
• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) with employer matching for US-based employees.
• Continuous learning opportunities and growth in an entrepreneurial environment.