[Hiring] QA Technical Lead @Coinspaid

Role Description

We are looking for a FullStack QA Tech Lead to join either the Compliance or Finance team and help us scale quality engineering across the Back Office Domain. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The QA Tech Lead is attached to a product team and keeps half time hands-on contribution, while also owning domain-level QA consistency, quality standards adoption, technical risk visibility, and testing strategy.

About the domain: The Back Office domain includes several teams which are working on the internal platforms that support compliance, financial operations, risk control, and product administration. The domain focuses on:

• Automation
• Operational efficiency
• Regulatory readiness
• Auditability
• Safe execution of critical business processes across products and regions

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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

• Flexible Benefits
• Benefit Bar – up to €230/month
• Fully remote work from almost anywhere
• Optional offices and relocation support
• Flexible, async-friendly environment
• Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development
• Language learning support
• Access to mental health support
• Financial support for important life events
• Merch shop with rewards system
• Team offsites and company events