QA Principal
Job description
Principal QA Engineer to own and lead the company-wide Quality Engineering system, strategy, and improvement roadmap across engineering domains. A senior individual contributor role working through QA Technical Leads and Senior QA Engineers while remaining hands-on in reviews, pilots, and critical investigations.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – good spoken and written, Russian – good spoken and written
What you'll do
- Take ownership of the company-wide Quality Engineering strategy, operating model, and improvement roadmap; continue evolving them as products, risks, and organizational needs change.
- Assess Quality Engineering maturity across domains, identify systemic bottlenecks and inconsistencies, and prioritize the improvements with the highest company-wide impact.
- Define and evolve cross-domain standards and guardrails for test architecture, coverage, quality evidence, testability, observability, release readiness, and production validation.
- Drive continuous improvement of the end-to-end QA process and embed shift-left practices, quality controls, and risk-based gates across the SDLC together with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and DevOps/SRE.
- Own the strategic direction of the QA toolchain and automation architecture, and validate key technical decisions hands-on through code, prototypes, and architecture reviews across UI and backend automation.
- Continuously benchmark market practices and emerging technologies, including AI; validate ideas through experiments and turn successful findings into company-wide transformation initiatives such as framework modernization, contract and performance testing, smarter test selection, and cloud-native test environments.
- Actively use AI in daily engineering work and advance its adoption across QA.
- Define scalable release-quality principles and provide technical recommendations for systemic, cross-team, or ambiguous quality risks.
- Lead cross-team investigations and root-cause analysis for critical incidents, unstable environments, systemic automation failures, and quality problems without a clear owner.
- Establish meaningful quality metrics and make trends, risks, technical debt, and improvement outcomes visible to engineering leadership.
- Develop QA Technical Leads as domain-level technical owners, strengthening their ability to translate company-wide direction into sustainable practices and decisions within their domains.
- Influence, align stakeholders, and translate business, regulatory, and operational risks into clear engineering priorities.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering, including technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
- Experience defining QA strategy, standards, or large-scale transformations with measurable results.
- Deep knowledge of Quality practices: risk-based testing, coverage strategy, shift-left, quality gates, testability, release readiness, and production quality signals.
- Strong hands-on programming experience and the ability to design and contribute to scalable UI and backend automation. Python is preferred, but strong experience with Go, Node.js, or another relevant stack is welcome.
- Strong experience with distributed backend systems, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, third-party integrations.
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud-native or GitOps environments, and observability tools.
- Ability to define useful quality metrics, communicate technical risk, and influence senior stakeholders.
- A research-driven mindset, practical experience evaluating new technologies, and confident, responsible, and active use of AI tools in everyday engineering work.
- Good spoken and written English and Russian.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, crypto, payments, compliance, financial operations, or another regulated domain with complex integrations and high operational risk.
- Experience with Kafka, MQ, Debezium, ledger-like systems, eventual consistency, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with contract, performance, load, resilience, or reliability testing.
Your team
Coinspaid Dev
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, bringing together software engineering, infrastructure, security and R&D teams building distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure operating across more than 20 blockchain networks.
Benefits
Benefit Bar – up to €230/month flexible monthly budget for sports, mental health, coworking, home office, or medical-related expenses.
- Fully remote work from almost anywhere.
- Optional offices and relocation support.
- Flexible, async-friendly environment.
- Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development.
- Language learning support.
- Cross-team learning and knowledge sharing.
- Medical insurance or reimbursement depending on location.
- Access to mental health support.
- Financial support for important life events.
- Merch shop with rewards system.
- Team offsites and company events.
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About CoinsPaid
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.
Mission
To advance blockchain infrastructure engineering and contribute practical expertise back to the industry.
Key facts
- more than 120 engineers
- Over 11 years of industry experience
- Blockchain infrastructure operating across more than 20 blockchain networks
- Coinspaid Dev emerges as an independent engineering brand
What they value
- Flexibility
- Wellbeing
- Long-term growth
- Ownership