QA Tech Lead

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Private insurance

1 day off

Sports program

Mental health program

English lessons

Referral program

Training & conferences

Job summary

FinteqHub is seeking a QA Tech Lead to shape testing across engineering teams. You will lead the migration of API tests from Java to Go and Gonkey, develop QA practices, and drive test strategy across teams.

Based in the Payment Integrations team, you will mentor engineers and expand UI test automation, with a remote-friendly, globally distributed setup. Strong English and Russian language skills are valued.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead-level experience in test automation, with a strong focus on API testing.
• Built a test strategy and test pyramid from scratch in more than one product.
• Track record of changing testing practices across several teams.
• Strong test design skills: derive coverage from requirements and specs.
• System-level understanding of product, not just framework.
• Know where unit tests suffice and where e2e is needed.
• Ability to align teams and drive decisions without formal authority.
• Mentoring experience in QA.
• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks; capable of picking up new tools quickly.
• Read Java well enough to audit and migrate an existing test suite.
• Solid understanding of REST/HTTP, JSON and API contract testing.
• Hands-on with k8s, Docker, PostgreSQL and message brokers.
• Experience with CI pipelines and debugging across services.

Responsibilities

• Audit the legacy Java API test suite and decide what to keep or retire.
• Oversee AI-assisted migration of tests to Go and Gonkey.
• Close coverage gaps in line with the test pyramid for high-risk scenarios.
• Help teams define and document their own test strategies and pyramids.
• Advise leads and engineers on testing decisions with risk/cost view.
• Own regression: plan runs, distribute checks, and maintain flaky test health.
• Lead cross-team defect investigations and reproduce issues.
• Set shared QA standards and tooling (ReportPortal, TMS, test reports).
• Bring AI into daily QA work for test generation and migration.
• Run biweekly QA syncs and mentor engineers to advance automation.
• Expand UI test automation in future stages.

Skills

API testing

Test strategy

Mentoring

Go

Playwright

CI pipelines

AI for QA

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

Gonkey

ReportPortal

TypeScript

Playwright

Job description

Overview

FinteqHub is expanding the team and is looking for an experienced QA Tech Lead to help strengthen test coverage and develop its testing approach.

About Product

FintehubΑ PCI DSS certified payment gateway for online businesses, providing integration with payment systems via a single software platform.

Purpose of the role

FinteqHub is looking for a QA Tech Lead to shape how our engineering teams approach testing and to help them make good testing decisions on their own. You'll be based in the Payment Integrations team. There you'll drive the migration of our API tests from Java to Go and Gonkey, and from there you'll develop QA practice across all teams.

Our stack

Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes. Tests are written in Go, Gonkey (YAML), TypeScript and Playwright, with reporting in ReportPortal and mobile testing on BrowserStack.

Key responsibilities

• Audit the legacy Java API test suite and decide what to keep, what to retire, and what should move to a lower test level.
• Oversee the AI-assisted migration of tests to Go and Gonkey, and make sure no critical checks are lost.
• Close coverage gaps in line with the test pyramid, starting with scenarios where money is at risk.
• Help every team define and document its own test strategy and pyramid, and review them.
• Advise team leads and automation engineers on testing decisions, with a clear view of the risk and cost of each option.
• Own regression: plan the runs, distribute the checks and report status. Keep daily and nightly runs healthy: tackle flaky tests, and make sure every failure has an owner and a deadline.
• Lead the investigation of cross-team defects: bring the right people together, find where the problem is and get it reproduced.
• Set shared QA standards and tooling: ReportPortal, TMS, and formats for test cases and bug reports.
• Bring AI into everyday testing: agents write tests, engineers review them.
• Run a biweekly QA sync, mentor engineers, and help manual QAs move into automation.
• Expand UI test automation as the next stage.

Required Experience

• Senior or Lead-level experience in test automation, with a strong focus on API testing.
• You have built a test strategy and test pyramid from scratch, in more than one product.
• A track record of changing testing practices across several teams.
• Strong test design skills: you build coverage from requirements and specs, not just automate existing cases.
• You see the system as a whole and understand the product, not just the framework.
• You know where a unit test is enough and where e2e is needed.
• Ability to align teams and drive decisions without formal authority.
• Mentoring experience.
• Experience writing tests in several languages and frameworks, and you pick up new tools quickly.
• You read Java well enough to audit and migrate an existing test suite.
• Solid understanding of REST/HTTP, JSON and API contract testing.
• Hands-on experience with k8s, Docker, PostgreSQL and any message broker.
• Experience with CI pipelines, investigating failures across services through logs, metrics and the DB, and stabilising flaky tests.
• You use AI in your daily QA work: generating tests from specs, porting tests between languages, analysing failures, reviewing code.
• You also know where AI gets things wrong.
• At least Intermediate level of English.
• Native-level Russian.

Nice to have

• Go (a strong plus).
• Experience with TypeScript and Playwright.
• Experience migrating a test suite from one stack to another.
• Experience building AI-based tooling or agents for QA tasks.
• Mobile testing experience, including BrowserStack.
• Experience in fintech or payment systems (payment flows, callbacks, idempotency, reconciliation).
• Experience with API testing tools.

Our Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours
• Private insurance
• Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year
• Sports program compensation
• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme
• Free online English lessons with a native speaker
• Generous referral program
• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events.