Lead Automation QA Engineer

Remote - European Region

Engineering – Back Office Engineering - Compliance Guard Team /

Full-time /

Hybrid

CoinsPaid offers ready-to-use crypto payment solutions tailored to business’ every need. Standing at the forefront of mass adoption, our products help businesses gear up for the new era of digital assets. We showed a tremendous growth in terms of transactions and volumes since 2019 and in 2023 were marked by Forbes as the "Best Crypto Payment Gateway for High-Volume Transactions".

Headquartered in Estonia and having 3 international hubs, we are still a remote-first company with employees working from 30+ countries around the world. At CoinsPaid, we are passionate about crypto, fintech and are putting great effort into building a team that will get the world ready for every-day crypto use. If these feel close to you - give us a shout!

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, and 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.

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

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

Why should you choose CoinsPaid?

To become a part of this solid team, passionate about their jobs and the crypto industry as a whole. To feel a great team spirit and meet people supporting each other's growth and development. To become a part of a rapidly developing international company and a crypto payments leader. Only in 2024 CoinsPaid was awarded more than 10 times:

- Acquisition International 2024 - Best Crypto-payment Solutions Firm 2024 - Europe;

- World Business Annual Awards 2024 - Leading Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Firm in Europe 2024;

- World Business Annual Awards 2024 - Best Blockchain Initiative Europe 2024;

- World Business Annual Awards 2024 - Best Blockchain Fintech Company Europe 2024;

- Global Brands Magazine Awards - Leading Cryptocurrency Payment Solutions;

- ICA Compliance Awards - Development of Automated Real-time Risk Assessment System;

- Europe Fintech Awards - Crypto Award;

- EiGE Awards - Best Payment Provider 2024;

- World Business Annual Awards 2024 - Best Cryptocurrency Payment Solution Provider Europe 2024;

- World Economic Magazine 2024 - Best Digital Payments Solutions Provider;

- Malta Fintech Awards by Dynamic Events - Payment Services Provider of the Year;

- Global Brands Magazine Awards - Best Crypto Payment Gateway;

- Business Awards UK - Best Cryptocurrency Tech;

- EGR B2B - Best Cryptocurrency Service Supplier 2024;

- Global Cards & Payments Innovation Awards - Best B2B Payments Initiative;

- International Investor Award - Most Advanced Crypto Payment Processing Firm 2024.

Solid facts about CoinsPaid:

- Private and profitable company, registered and licensed in Estonia;

- Secure business, with regular financial and regulatory audits;

- Over 10 years of experience in the blockchain development;

- Over €700M processed in crypto monthly;

- Over 1M transactions processed monthly;

- Over 800 merchants accounts serviced;

- Over 270 team members across 30+ countries.

By joining CoinsPaid now, you’ll participate in building the world's best crypto payment ecosystem, conquering new markets, and popularising cryptocurrencies.

Sounds good? Well then, we can’t wait to see your resume!

To learn more please visit: https://coinspaid.com/about-us/ & https://coinspaid.com/careers/

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