QA Technical Lead (Python)

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Coinspaid Solutions is a fintech company building blockchain payment infrastructure for the global economy.

We design, implement, and scale payment systems that connect digital assets with real-world financial operations. Our solutions help businesses and financial institutions operate efficiently in the evolving digital asset landscape.

For over 11 years, we’ve been developing products that bring crypto payments closer to mainstream adoption. Today, our team includes 350+ professionals working remotely across multiple countries.

We combine the pace of fintech with a long-term approach to building products, teams, and careers. As a remote-first company, we give people flexibility in how they work while maintaining strong collaboration and shared ownership across teams.

🏆 In 2026, Coinspaid was recognized as Best Corporate Culture in the Blockchain Industry in Europe, reflecting our focus on ownership, trust, and collaboration.

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