About INQUD
INQUD is a crypto payment infrastructure for businesses. We build products that allow companies to accept and send crypto payments: on-ramp, off-ramp, mass payouts, recurring payments, and a full merchant backoffice.
We are a small, tight-knit product team that has been working together for 3–6 years with zero turnover. We ship fast, iterate quickly, and don’t hide behind processes — everyone owns their work end-to-end.
Tech stack: Node.js (backend), React (frontend), Kotlin, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, AWS, Kubernetes, blockchain integrations (EVM, Solana, TRON), Sumsub (KYC/AML), Grafana, DataDog.
The Role
We’re looking for a QA Engineer who wants to build quality from scratch — not just close tickets. You’ll be the person who brings structure, automation, and a quality mindset to a fast-moving fintech product.
This is not a maintenance role. This is a greenfield opportunity: there’s an existing test suite that needs to be brought into CI/CD, a product with complex financial flows that needs proper coverage, and a team that will give you full ownership and trust.
Prove yourself — and there’s a clear path to QA Lead within 6–12 months.
What You’ll Do
- Own the entire QA process: manual testing, automation, API tests, performance testing, release quality
- Build and maintain an automated test framework (you choose the stack — we’ll support you)
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipeline — this is priority #1
- Design and execute API tests for complex financial flows (deposits, withdrawals, AML checks, refunds)
- Set up and run performance/load testing for payment processing endpoints
- Define test strategy: what to automate, what to test manually, risk-based prioritization
- Participate in sprint planning, estimate QA effort, flag risks early
- Work directly with 2 backend and 2 frontend engineers, PO, and Head of Engineering
- Improve QA processes with minimal disruption — evolve what works, fix what doesn’t
Must Have
- 5+ years of QA experience (manual + automation)
- Hands-on experience with at least one E2E automation framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar)
- Strong API testing skills (Postman, REST Assured, or code-based approach)
- Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Understanding of test strategy: when to automate, when not to, risk-based testing
- Fintech or payments domain experience (“transaction stuck in pending” needs no explanation)
- Crypto/blockchain domain knowledge (wallet flows, AML, on-chain transactions, payment processing)
- AI-native approach to QA: you use AI tools daily for test generation, API contract analysis, exploratory testing hypotheses, and log triage
- Fluent Russian (team communication language)
- English: reading documentation, technical communication
Nice to Have
- Performance/load testing experience (k6, JMeter, Gatling, or similar)
- Basic security testing knowledge (OWASP Top 10, common fintech vulnerabilities)
- Experience in small product teams (not just large enterprise or outsource)
- Diverse background: worked in different environments (startup, product, outsource) and understands trade-offs
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, DataDog)
Who You Are
This section is as important as technical skills. We’ve learned from experience that culture fit matters more than a perfect CV in a small team.
- You adapt to existing processes before trying to change them. Your first month is about listening and understanding, not restructuring.
- You’re autonomous but not isolated. You don’t need micromanagement, but you communicate proactively when something is off.
- You’re ambitious but not political. You want to grow to Lead because you want to build great QA — not for the title.
- You’re flexible in your approach. You don’t come with “the one true framework” — you assess the situation and propose what fits.
- You finish what you start. Initiatives that live forever in “in progress” are not achievements.
- You’re comfortable in a team where everyone is a friend, not just a colleague. We care about each other and expect the same.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary (B2B contract), based on experience
- Fully remote — work from anywhere (we prefer UTC+1 to UTC+5 overlap for team sync)
- Stable product team — zero turnover, everyone has been here 3–6 years
- Real ownership — you own QA end-to-end, no bureaucracy
- Clear growth path to QA Lead within 6–12 months based on results
- Direct access to PO and Head of Engineering — no layers of management
- Modern fintech/crypto product with real users and real money at stake
