Remote - European Region
Hybrid
Senior
Full Time
remotecryptofintechQAautomationPythonseniorlead
Requirements
- •6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, including manual and automation testing
- •Experience as QA Lead, QA Tech Lead, Senior FullStack QA, Automation Lead, or similar role
- •Strong experience with Python-based test automation
- •Proficiency with Pytest and API/backend automation
- •Experience with Playwright or similar UI automation tools
- •Experience with functional and non-functional testing
- •Strong understanding of QA approaches, testing principles, test pyramid, risk-based testing, and test coverage strategy
- •Good understanding of SDLC from requirements analysis to deployment and production monitoring
- •Experience with REST API testing, message queues, and third-party integrations
- •Experience with CI/CD systems and test automation integration into pipelines
- •Experience with Allure TestOps or similar test management/reporting tools
- •Experience with observability and troubleshooting tools such as Sentry, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar
- •Good SQL skills
- •Independence, proactivity, ownership, and strong communication skills
- •Ability to quickly learn new things
- •Good level of spoken and written English and Russian
What You'll Do
- •Be an active part of a Scrum product team and keep around 50% hands-on contribution
- •Do requirements analysis, test design, manual and automated testing for backend/API, UI, integrations, message queues, and complex business flows
- •Develop and maintain test documentation
- •Automate test cases and improve regression coverage using the existing Python-based framework
- •Maintain and expand the test automation framework, including mocks, test data, CI/CD integration, and reporting
- •Analyze failed test runs, perform RCA, report defects, and help the team improve product quality
- •Participate in release activities, smoke testing, production validation, and post-release monitoring
- •Own QA technical direction for the team and help scale consistent QA practices across the Back Office Domain
- •Improve QA processes, quality gates, automation strategy, and delivery confidence together with QA, Dev, DevOps, Product, and Engineering Manager
- •Mentor QA engineers, support code/test case reviews, and help grow QA engineering maturity in the team
Nice to Have
- •Experience in fintech, crypto, payments, compliance, financial operations, or other complex domains with heavy business logic
- •Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, GitOps, or cloud-native environments
- •Experience with Kafka, NSQ, Debezium, Ledger-like systems, or event-driven architecture
- •Experience with performance testing tools such as k6 or Locust
- •Experience with contract testing, mocks, fakers
- •Experience building QA metrics, quality gates, release readiness dashboards
Benefits
- •Remote work
- •Part of a passionate and supportive team
- •Opportunity to work in a rapidly developing international crypto payments company
- •Company awarded multiple industry recognitions in 2024
