QA Technical Lead (Python)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 5, 2026. CoinsPaid scores B on the Alion truth index.
We are looking for a FullStack QA Tech Lead to join either the Compliance or Finance team and help us scale quality engineering across the Back Office Domain. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The QA Tech Lead is attached to a product team and keeps half time hands-on contribution, while also owning domain-level QA consistency, quality standards adoption, technical risk visibility, and testing strategy.
About the domain
The Back Office domain includes several teams which are working on the internal platforms that support compliance, financial operations, risk control, and product administration. The domain focuses on automation, operational efficiency, regulatory readiness, auditability, and safe execution of critical business processes across products and regions.
Responsibilities:
Be an active part of a Scrum product team and keep around 50% hands-on contribution
Do requirements analysis, test design, manual and automated testing for backend/API, UI, integrations, message queues, and complex business flows
Develop and maintain test documentation
Automate test cases and improve regression coverage using the existing Python-based framework
Maintain and expand the test automation framework, including mocks, test data, CI/CD integration, and reporting
Analyze failed test runs, perform RCA, report defects, and help the team improve product quality
Participate in release activities, smoke testing, production validation, and post-release monitoring
Own QA technical direction for the team and help scale consistent QA practices across the Back Office Domain
Improve QA processes, quality gates, automation strategy, and delivery confidence together with QA, Dev, DevOps, Product, and Engineering Manager
Mentor QA engineers, support code/test case reviews, and help grow QA engineering maturity in the team.
Requirements:
6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, including manual and automation testing
Experience as QA Lead, QA Tech Lead, Senior FullStack QA, Automation Lead, or similar role
Strong experience with Python-based test automation
Proficiency with Pytest and API/backend automation
Experience with Playwright or similar UI automation tools
Experience with functional and non-functional testing
Strong understanding of QA approaches, testing principles, test pyramid, risk-based testing, and test coverage strategy
Good understanding of SDLC from requirements analysis to deployment and production monitoring
Experience with REST API testing, message queues, and third-party integrations
Experience with CI/CD systems and test automation integration into pipelines
Experience with Allure TestOps or similar test management/reporting tools
Experience with observability and troubleshooting tools such as Sentry, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar
Good SQL skills
Independence, proactivity, ownership, and strong communication skills
Ability to quickly learn new things
Good level of spoken and written English and Russian
Nice to have
Experience in fintech, crypto, payments, compliance, financial operations, or other complex domains with heavy business logic
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, GitOps, or cloud-native environments
Experience with Kafka, NSQ, Debezium, Ledger-like systems, or event-driven architecture
Experience with performance testing tools such as k6 or Locust
Experience with contract testing, mocks, fakers
Experience building QA metrics, quality gates, release readiness dashboards