Senior QA Engineer
- France
Full-time – Permanent – Paris or Remote from France – 65/80k€ + equity
About the role:
As a Senior QA Engineer at Kiln, you will join our Software Development Team, composed of 3 squads owning API-first products [https://docs.kiln.fi/v1/]. You will collaborate with both our Engineering Manager and Tech Lead Engineer, to design a global quality assurance strategy, aiming to increase test consistency and coverage at scale. You will also work as a multi-squads contributor to provide tooling, and best testing practices to the team.
Responsibilities:
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Develop and maintain a comprehensive and scalable testing framework for our applications, ensuring efficient and reliable test execution.
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Collaborate with Development and Product teams to understand project requirements and identify areas that require enhanced testing coverage.
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Document test plans, test cases, and test reports to ensure effective test coverage and traceability.
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Define and implement with the Development team testing practices, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistent and high-quality deliverables.
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Define and implement data integrity testing practices, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data stored and processed by our applications.
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Identify, analyze, and report defects, issues, and risks, and work closely with development teams to facilitate timely resolutions.
Stack:
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Software: Go, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Open API…
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Smart-contract: Solidity, Foundry, OpenZeppelin
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Infrastructure: AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes
Requirements:
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+5 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer, within a high-standard software engineering environment — preferably Banking/FinTech or Data/DevOps industries.
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Experience with End-to-End testing frameworks (Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer, Nightwatch …).
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Experience with RESTful API testing and JSON validation.
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Skilled in programming: Python, Go, or Typescript.
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Familiar with software development best practices (BDD, CI/CD, DevOps…)
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Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
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Excellent communicant with mentorship capabilities.
Nice-to-haves:
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Experience working on API/microservice-based products
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Genuine interest in web3, blockchain, cryptocurrency and smart contracts - check our Tech Blog [https://www.kiln.fi/blog]
About Kiln:
Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, and data and commission management.
With over $1.9 billion crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as we run about 3% of the network; this includes 22,000+ validators with 0 slashing events.
The team is made up of 45 ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies.
Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized and fair!
How Kiln will support you:
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A fast-paced, no bureaucratic work environment
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Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
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Competitive Salary
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Unlimited holiday
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Flexible remote working
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Chose your IT equipment
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Internet connection paid up to €50/month
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Significant personal development and tech conf budget
Your interview process:
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Recruiter Interview (45 min)
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Take-home test (< 2 hours)
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Technical Interview (60 min)
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Product & Culture Interview (45 min)
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Executive Interview (30 min)
We're looking forward to chatting!
Please note that we are not sponsoring visas for non-UK or EU citizens. This role is specifically for employees (no B2B or contractors) based in France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal & Netherlands where Kiln has a legal entity. Thank you
