QA Engineer II

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

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Quality Assurance Engineer II (Banking) | Acorns

Acorns is seeking a highly skilled and relentlessly customer-focused Quality Assurance Engineer II to be a QA champion for our core Banking offerings.

This role will ensure that Acorns Banking products—including high-interest checking, high-interest emergency savings, check deposit, and paycheck deposit—are accurate, transparent, and instill trust and confidence with our customer base. You’ll be embedded within the Banking Engineering team, reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, and joining the broader Quality Assurance Engineering team.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

What you will do at Acorns:

You will own the quality strategy and execution for our critical financial services, driving automated testing and continuous improvement within a Scrum-based Agile environment.

• Own the Quality Strategy: You will maintain existing test cases in the automation suite to ensure they are stable, available, and consistently run in alignment with organizational metrics.

• Drive Automation: Work to meet the goal of increasing strategic automation coverage to 50% across all test types (unit, snapshot, integration, e2e) within your first six months, highly encouraged to use agentic and generative AI technology to achieve efficiency and scale.

• AI-First Acceleration: Proactively explore, prototype, and implement AI and automation tools (e.g., test case generation, anomaly detection) to maximize testing efficiency, quality, and velocity.

• Share Knowledge: Document and evangelize AI/ML-driven wins and best practices across the entire QA team and wider Engineering organization to accelerate overall productivity and maintain our AI-first culture.

• Reduce Risk: Confidently identify problems and propose solutions, taking on projects that identify and mitigate risk while measuring software quality. Your success will be measured, in part, by an improvement in escape rate / reducing incidents.

• Technical Delivery: Design and deliver test plans for a significant component, set of features, or service within the Banking domain. This includes creating and executing test plans for complex test scenarios.

• Integrate CI/CD: You will contribute to the team's goal of fully adopting Acorns' Continuous Delivery (CD) strategy in the next six months.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner heavily with Product Marketing and Data Analytics/Engineering teams to ensure comprehensive product testing and data integrity.

• Mentorship: After six months, you will be expected to formally mentor a QAE through an internal process or present banking domain knowledge to the wider QA team.

• Lead Emerging Tech: Collaborate on developing and assuring emerging technology in the banking space, helping to solve complex technical challenges for the team.

What you will bring to Acorns:

• You are relentless in protecting our customers, curious, and ready to contribute to the new vision for Banking.

• 4–6+ years of software testing experience.

• 2+ years of dedicated experience in the Banking or Fintech domain.

• Proficiency in backend/API testing as a primary focus, utilizing TypeScript and GraphQL.

• Proficiency in Mobile testing (secondary focus), utilizing Kotlin/Espresso and Swift/XCUI.

• Automated testing experience across various types (unit, integration, e2e).

• Experience with at least one CI/CD platform: Harness, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, or buildkite.

• Have worked in a Scrum-based Agile Development Model.

• Proficiency partnering with Engineering and Product teams.

• Hunger to deliver game-changing products

• Exceptional drive and precision in delivery

• A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission

• Optimistic about the potential of societal change

Nice to Have:

• ISTQB or other certification is a plus.

• Web testing experience with Cypress.

• Experience with PNPM, TestRails, Docker/containerization, or Crypto/blockchain.

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options

• A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family

• Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off

• 401(k) matching

• Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for your family

• Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace and Addition Wealth

• Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform)

• Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders

• Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events

• Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another, our mission, and our customers.

• The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges.

About Acorns:

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 14 million people save & invest over $25 million dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information:

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $155,000 and $165,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including equity grants, and discretionary cash bonus awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization:

Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov.