pod-network - QA Engineer

UK & Europe,Turkey & Eastern Europe,South Africa,UAE / Gulf region,India+ Equity1mo ago

In Office EMEA Cryptocurrency Fintech QA Engineer Reporting Docker Kubernetes Rust TypeScript

Requirements

• Experience in QA, software testing, release testing, or a similar role. • Strong manual testing skills, with the ability to create practical test cases, reproduce bugs, and document issues clearly. • Comfortable testing technical software such as APIs, CLIs, backend services, infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems. • Comfortable using command-line tools, reading logs, running scripts, and working in local or staging environments. • Some experience with automated testing, scripting, smoke tests, regression tests, or end-to-end tests. • Strong ownership of release quality: you keep testing until the behavior is actually understood. • Experience with blockchain systems, exchanges, trading systems, fintech products, databases, or distributed systems. • Experience with Docker, CI, Kubernetes, cloud environments, or API testing tools. • Experience writing scripts or tests in Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Bash. • Familiarity with wallets, transactions, RPC APIs, validators, smart contracts, or Ethereum-compatible tooling. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE : • Bugs are caught early, before they reach users or public environments. • New pod releases go to production with few or no unexpected issues. • Clients can trust that pod works correctly in production. • The engineering team has confidence that new features, fixes, and releases have been tested properly before they ship.

Responsibilities

• Manually test new pod features and releases before they ship. This is the core of the role. • Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected behavior, actual behavior, logs, screenshots, or other useful context. • Communicate with the right person on the team to help bugs get fixed, verified, and shipped to production. • Write automated tests for repeated checks, including end-to-end scripts and headless browser tests.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus meaningful token/equity upside. • Real ownership of QA and release quality from day one. • A high-impact role in a small, ambitious engineering team. • The chance to work on technically challenging distributed systems and market infrastructure. • Occasional travel for team offsites and crypto industry events.