QA Engineering Manager

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine Type: full-time We're looking for a hands-on QA Engineering Manager to lead a QA team responsible for the quality, reliability, and security of enterprise software built around Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure. This role combines technical execution with team leadership. You'll build and maintain automated testing frameworks, establish scalable QA processes, and work closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps to ensure reliable releases. You'll be expected to write automation code and work directly with CI/CD pipelines while developing the team and improving quality standards. Responsibilities: Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers. Establish effective onboarding, development, and hiring practices as the team scales. Test Automation: Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python, Playwright, pytest, and REST API testing tools. Remain hands-on with scripting and framework development. Test Strategy and Coverage: Define and execute testing strategies across functional, regression, API, performance, and security testing. Establish measurable quality metrics and improve regression coverage. Security and Reliability: Develop testing approaches for complex authorization flows, transaction processing, state transitions, and failure scenarios. Identify vulnerabilities and validate system behavior across application and API boundaries. CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites