Senior QA Engineer
Company Overview
ZBD powers real economies in virtual worlds by enabling game studios, creators, and platforms to embed seamless payments and virtual currencies into their experiences. Whether players are purchasing in-game currency, creators are monetizing their communities, or developers are building new types of digital commerce, ZBD provides the infrastructure to make it happen.
ZBD is a fully remote company. We hire, retain, and develop the best talent from around the world, wherever s/he/they may choose to live. As a result, every member of the ZBD team must demonstrate an ability to work independently and thrive in a remote environment.
Job Overview
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join the ZEBEDEE Engineering team working to build and expand the QA team of engineers and testing solutions in the ZBD platform and product suite. You will lead and be the owner of the overall QA strategy for our product suite, directly impacting business and product decisions. You will work very closely with the leaders of Engineering, as well as other heads of teams to develop a thorough company-wide testing suite. Note that this will be a hands on role in the beginning.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve ZBD’s QA strategy, tooling, processes, and best practices as the company scales.
- Build and grow the QA function over time, including hiring, mentoring, and establishing quality standards across engineering teams.
- Design a comprehensive test plans for features across the ZBD suite (Platform APIs, iOS, Android, Web), adapting to product evolution and customer feedback.
- Triage, communicate, and report bugs.
- Build and own automated testing pipelines and quality gates for all ZBD products, with hands-on implementation initially.
- Drive quality assurance throughout the product lifecycle from design review through production deployment, ensuring feature quality at every stage.
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering to develop production-equivalent testing environments and integrate testing into CI/CD workflows.
- Partner with Engineering leads, Product Managers, and Business stakeholders to improve user flows, identify quality risks, and scale the product suite.
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams on developing production digital products and including testing and monitoring, ideally in a quality assurance focused team.
- Experience automating end-to-end, integration, and UI tests for iOS, Android, and Web Apps.
- Experience with static analysis push and unit test coverage push.
- Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
- Experience with API tools including Postman, Newman, or Swagger.
- Familiarity with consumer centric app testing.
- Experience with API load testing and tooling such as K6.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with CI/CD and APM tools.
- Experience with automated test tools such as Testing Library, Selenium, BrowserStack or Cypress.
- Self-drive to improve the ZBD product experience above and beyond.
Nice to Haves
- Knowledge of, and experience working with Bitcoin and Lightning Network software.
- Experience building automated systems for improving team-wide performance and development velocity.
- Strong Product Mindset, the ability to anticipate what to expect from the user’s perspective.