QA Engineer, Lead

Amun is a leading cryptocurrency issuer which aims to make purchasing crypto more accessible, and efficient.

Under its 21Shares brand, Amun is the world’s largest issuer of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs). The 21Shares suite of ETPs has simplified access to crypto for both institutional and retail investors in the traditional finance community. In a similar fashion, Amun aims to provide tokens that will make it easy for the crypto community to access sophisticated strategies that are not otherwise readily available in this space. Amun 21Shares is a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, and financial product developers who are uniquely placed to revolutionize cryptocurrency investing through the issuance of our broad range of tokens. Our goal is to make these tokens present a new paradigm in cryptocurrency investing and to facilitate their use.

Our investment in superior technology and automation has enabled us to both release products, as well as work directly with top organizations including the Bitcoin Cash Foundation, Bitcoin Suisse, Binance, Bitwise, Coinbase, FlowTraders, Sygnum, and the Tezos Foundation as launch partners or customers of Onyx, our full stack issuance platform.

Job Summary:

As a QA Engineer, Lead, you will work with a talented team of developers, product and project managers, designers, and marketers on both sides of the Atlantic. You will help ensure that all requirements are met before our product reaches the customers. You will be actively involved in product decisions and share ownership in the company’s success. You will also evolve in a fast-growing company, where you will make a significant impact!

In the short term you will be instrumental in helping us meet our quality needs as a primary contributor working on non trivial manual and automated QA initiatives for our crypto / DeFi products.

In the long term you will help us define and execute a modern QA strategy that will support our product and company as we enter a high growth phase. This will include QA team growth, refinement of processes, and development of capabilities.

Key Accountabilities and Scope:

• Strategize, Design and implement both automated and manual testing approach
• Identify procedures and scenarios for the quality control of products and services
• Process product reviews and inform the development team of defects and errors
• Communicate quantitative and qualitative findings from test results to the development team
• Monitor efforts to resolve product issues and track progress
• Ensure that the final product satisfies the product requirements and meet end-user expectations
• Spot areas for improvement to enhance the product’s efficiency

Skills Required:

• Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience designing test plans and writing test cases (smoke, acceptance, and regression)
• 3+ years of experience working within Agile framework
• Familiarity with the industry trends, latest frameworks, and the trade-offs of existing automation/testing solutions.
• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance on a variety of platforms, such as web applications, mobile devices, websites, etc.
• Must have strong experience in a programming language (javascript, python, ruby, etc)
• Experience setting the technical vision for developing test automation and continuous integration
• A demonstrated product-oriented mindset, creativity, and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness
• Prior experience working in a DevOps environment leveraging Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• You possess relevant training and/or certification, such as ISTQB - Advantage

Very Nice to Have:

• Experience in Crypto
• Strong DevOps experience
• Experience with Puppeteer and E2E