QA Technical Lead (Python)

Company: CoinsPaid
Location: Remote - European Region
Type: full_time
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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Coinspaid Dev is the engineering brand behind the technology, infrastructure, and R&D expertise built within Coinspaid. With more than 120 engineers and over 11 years of industry experience, Coinspaid Dev brings together software engineering, infrastructure, security and R&D teams with experience building distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure operating across more than 20 blockchain networks.

Coinspaid Dev emerges as an independent engineering brand with a straightforward mission: to advance blockchain infrastructure engineering and contribute practical expertise back to the industry. The structure is new. The experience behind it is not.

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 join CryptoProcessing by 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!
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    About the Company

    Name: CoinsPaid
    Location: Estonia (Remote-first, employees in 30+ countries)
    Website: https://coinspaid.com

    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.

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