Senior Quality Engineer - Solflare

About the role

As a Senior Quality Engineer at Solflare, you will be responsible for developing and implementing testing strategies that ensure the quality of features throughout the development lifecycle. Your role will involve collaborating with engineers, participating in early project phases, and maintaining test coverage across various layers.

Solflare operates in a remote-first environment, with a growing team of 150 professionals. Your contributions will directly impact the experience of millions of users who rely on Solflare for managing their digital assets. Success in this role means fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the team.

Skills that matter here

• QA: This role requires senior-level experience in quality assurance with a focus on real products.
• Automation Testing: Hands-on experience with automation tools is essential for developing efficient testing processes.
• WebdriverIO: Experience with WebdriverIO is necessary for implementing testing strategies.
• Selenium: Selenium knowledge will be utilized for automated testing of web applications.
• CI/CD: Familiarity with CI/CD platforms like Jenkins or GitHub Actions is required for integrating testing into the development workflow.
• Postman: Experience with Postman is needed for testing RESTful services and backend functionality.

Who this role suits

• Candidates should have a proactive mindset and a strong sense of ownership over their work.
• A user-focused approach to product development is essential for success in this role.
• An interest in web3 or fintech will be beneficial for aligning with the company's mission.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills are key in a remote-first environment.

From the employer

Core Responsibilities

• Own the testing strategy for the features and areas you work on.
• Decide how confidence gets built, which validation happens at which layer (unit, component, integration, API, golden, E2E, accessibility, performance, security, manual, exploratory).
• Get involved early: Join discovery and specification reviews before development starts.
• Design test cases as part of feature development, covering user journeys, happy paths, edge cases, error handling, recovery, and regression.
• Enable engineers to own their part of quality by providing necessary tools and support.
• Do the testing that matters, including structured execution and exploratory testing.
• Maintain a living view of test coverage per feature.
• Continuously improve the automation strategy and the process itself.
• Bring AI/LLM tools into the workflow to enhance testing efficiency.

Qualifications Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Senior level experience in QA with ownership of quality for real features or products.
• A genuine ownership and proactivity mindset.
• A user- and product-first way of thinking.
• Security mindset and comfort with the 'shift-left' idea.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as WebdriverIO, Patrol, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, or Playwright.
• Experience writing backend tests (API, unit, database) and testing RESTful services with tools such as Postman.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Nice to have: Experience in web3 or fintech.

Additional Information

• Working at Solflare comes with trade-offs; we’re open about them.
• Flexibility in a remote-first setup, with a focus on proactive communication.
• Interest in Solflare and the industry is encouraged.
• Millions already use what we build; help shape what comes next.