QA Automation Lead

At PayDepot, we develop multiple B2B and B2C fintech products, including payment infrastructure, crypto services, and financial platforms. We are growing rapidly and are looking for a QA Lead who will take ownership of our overall quality assurance strategy, lead the QA team, and ensure high-quality standards across all our products.

We have a nice office in Limassol, and if you are not in Cyprus yet, we will assist with relocation for you and your family.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage the QA team, ensuring effective task distribution, workload planning, and professional development

• Develop and implement the overall QA strategy, covering manual and automated testing across all products

• Establish and improve testing processes, methodologies, standards, and best practices

• Define testing priorities based on business needs, product requirements, deadlines, and potential risks

• Oversee testing activities, evaluate results, ensure adequate test coverage, and identify quality gaps

• Define and monitor QA metrics to assess team performance and testing effectiveness

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle

• Drive test automation development, including framework improvements, tool selection, and CI/CD integration

• Introduce AI-assisted tools for test case generation, test data creation and test automation, and measure their impact on coverage and speed.

• Use AI coding agents to speed up writing and maintaining automated tests, and set review standards for AI-generated test code.

• Apply AI to analyse test results, cluster flaky tests and failures, and speed up root-cause analysis.

• Establish quality processes for AI features in the product, such as LLM-based functionality, chatbots or recommendations.

• Coach the QA team on effective prompting and safe use of AI tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Software QA, including significant experience in test automation

• Proven experience in a QA Lead, QA Manager, or similar leadership role

• Experience managing, mentoring, and developing QA engineers

• Strong knowledge of manual and automated testing methodologies and processes

• Experience developing QA strategies and improving testing processes

• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Selenide, or similar

• Understanding of CI/CD, Agile development, and the software development lifecycle

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Git

• Hands-on experience using AI tools in daily QA work, for example AI coding assistants or LLMs for test design and analysis.

• Understanding of the limits of AI-generated tests, including hallucinated assertions, missing edge cases and false confidence in coverage.

• Ability to evaluate and pilot new AI testing tools and build a business case for adopting them.

• Awareness of data privacy and security risks when sharing code, logs or customer data with AI services.

• Good English, both spoken and written

You're our perfect candidate if

• You have experience in fintech, banking, payment systems, or cryptocurrency

• You can balance strategic thinking with a hands-on technical approach

• You are comfortable making decisions, taking ownership, and working in a fast-paced environment

• You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• You have a genuine interest in the cryptocurrency space

• You already use AI tools in your daily QA work and can show how they made your team faster or your coverage better.

What we offer

• Full relocation support and working visa

• Competitive salary

• Days off when you need them

What awaits you

• The opportunity to shape and lead QA Automation practices across multiple fintech products

• Working in small, fast-moving Scrum teams

• No unnecessary bureaucracy - we follow best practices and common sense

• Pleasant colleagues, reasonable stakeholders, and a healthy internal culture

• A healthy, non-toxic environment - we respect work-life balance and turn off Slack during vacations