QA Technical Lead (Python)

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 Why should you choose Coinspaid? You’ll be joining a company that is actively shaping its space – with enough scale to matter and enough room to make an impact. At Coinspaid, people are expected to think, contribute, and take ownership – and are supported in doing so. We focus on flexibility, wellbeing, and long-term growth – without overcomplicating how benefits work. Flexible Benefits Benefit Bar – up to €230/month A flexible monthly budget you can use for what matters most to you – from sports and mental health to coworking, home office, or medical-related expenses. Work & Flexibility Fully remote work from almost anywhere Optional offices and relocation support Flexible, async-friendly environment Growth & Learning Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development Language learning support Cross-team learning and knowledge sharing Wellbeing & Support Medical insurance or reimbursement depending on location Access to mental health support Financial support for important life events Extras Merch shop with rewards system Team offsites and company events 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/