QA Automation Engineer - Crypto Market Making

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Automation Engineer to lead the development and maintenance of automation systems that validate our critical business processes and drive measurable quality across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to build automated testing frameworks for cryptocurrency market making technology with high availability and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automation frameworks for validating end-to-end business processes and critical system functions.
• Develop test strategies that support key QA framework KPIs, including coverage of critical business logic, process adherence, change failure rates, and performance monitoring.
• Build and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe releases.
• Partner with Product and Delivery Managers to drive adoption of standard QA processes across teams.
• Support the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation for critical business functions and features.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure production stability and fast incident response.
• Analyse trends in deployment success/failures and performance degradations to proactively improve system quality.
• Track and report progress on quality metrics and KPIs to stakeholders.
• Contribute to operational runbooks for incident response and system recovery.
• Mentor engineers and QA team members on automation and testing best practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks (backend and functional).
• Proficiency with modern automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Strong understanding of QA frameworks and standard processes (process adherence, test coverage, KPI-driven quality tracking).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with cryptocurrency market making technology or similar high-availability systems.