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Senior QA Automation Engineer, Desktop
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $96,000 - $153,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PythonRust
About the role
- Create comprehensive test plans before feature development, defining manual and automated testing strategies
- Perform hands-on manual testing during development cycles to validate new features before automation
- Balance manual exploratory testing with automation to catch edge cases
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to define QA processes for a mission-critical trading platform
- Help design and build a custom desktop testing framework inspired by tools like WinAppDriver, Spectron, and PyAutoGUI
- Design and maintain desktop UI automation suites and expand cross-platform coverage
- Lead automation initiatives end-to-end: strategy, implementation, CI/CD integration, and scaling coverage
- Drive performance, security, and accessibility testing
- Proactively document, report, and triage bugs to improve release quality and velocity
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Python or another automation-oriented language
- Trading knowledge and experience (order types, trade execution, margin trading, financial markets)
- Proven ability to design comprehensive test plans before implementation
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining test automation frameworks for desktop or complex applications
- Strong manual testing skills and exploratory testing ability
- Familiarity with desktop automation tools like WinAppDriver, Spectron, PyAutoGUI, or similar
- Solid understanding of QA principles including exploratory testing, regression testing, and bug tracking
- Comfort with CI/CD integration and automation at scale
- Detail-oriented mindset with passion for building high-quality software
- Nice-to-haves: deep expertise in crypto markets/derivatives, multi-OS testing experience, Rust or Iced familiarity, fintech or performance/security/accessibility testing experience
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance (US only)
- Dental insurance (US only)
- Vision insurance (US only)
- 401(k)
- Fully remote work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Pythontest automation frameworksmanual testingexploratory testingregression testingbug trackingCI/CD integrationperformance testingsecurity testingaccessibility testing
Soft skills
detail-orientedcollaborationproactive documentationproblem-solvingcommunication