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Strike (simplistic.com)

Software Test Engineer

Reposted 14 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
110K-125K Annually
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
110K-125K Annually
Mid level
As a Software Test Engineer, you'll own manual testing, drive automation, develop test strategies, and collaborate on application quality and performance.
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Strike is the Bitcoin company. With Strike, you can buy and sell bitcoin, pay bills, and borrow against your holdings. From individuals to businesses, Strike is purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. Available in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Strike is building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is better money. Strike is how you use it.

Role: 

As a Software Test Engineer, you will be a pivotal member of our QA and product engineering team, directly shaping the robustness and user experience of our industry-leading iOS, Android, and Web applications. You will be instrumental in maintaining our high-quality bar, initially taking ownership of key manual testing responsibilities while strategically driving increased automation coverage across our product suite. This role offers the opportunity to own complex features end-to-end, collaborate with diverse cross-functional teams, and significantly impact our mission to revolutionize financial interactions.

We are seeking a proactive, strategic, and highly experienced individual who is passionate about building scalable, resilient systems and thrives in a dynamic, remote-first environment.

Location: Remote - Americas (US Time Zone availability is a strict requirement)

What You'll Do:
  • Manual Testing Ownership: Immediately take ownership of critical manual testing responsibilities, ensuring the timely and high-quality release of our iOS, Android, and Web applications. This includes comprehensive functional, regression, and exploratory testing of new features and existing functionalities.
  • End-to-End API Testing: Take part in our E2E API testing, ensuring every backend service release is timely and high-quality. This includes functional, regression, and exploratory testing for new features and existing functionalities.
  • Strategic Automation Drive: Dedicate significant time to researching, designing, developing, and implementing robust, scalable automated test frameworks and suites for UI, API, and integration layers across mobile (iOS, Android) and web platforms. Your goal will be to significantly reduce the reliance on manual testing over time.
  • Test Plan & Strategy Development: Develop and evolve comprehensive test strategies and plans for major features and critical product initiatives, encompassing functional, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
  • Shift-Left Quality Advocate: Embed quality practices earlier in the development lifecycle by collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams from inception through deployment.
  • Performance & Reliability Contribution: Contribute to implementing and monitoring performance, scalability, and reliability testing, working with SRE and backend teams to identify bottlenecks and ensure optimal application performance under load.
  • Data-Driven Insights: Utilize telemetry, analytics, and crash reporting tools to gather insights into user behavior and identify areas for quality improvement. 
  • Collaboration: Work closely with other team members, providing technical guidance and contributing to a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence within the engineering organization.
  • Customer-Centric Focus: Act as a strong advocate for the end-user, ensuring a seamless, intuitive, and consistent experience across all platforms, and actively incorporating customer feedback into testing efforts.
What You'll Bring:
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Development Engineering in Test (SDET) roles
  • Experience in both manual and automated testing methodologies, with the ability to quickly master new features and build comprehensive test cases.
  • Strong expertise in test automation framework design and implementation for complex distributed systems.
  • Experience with Type Script
  • Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, such as Playwright, Cypress, Appium, XCUITest, Espresso, Jest, Pytest, K6, Maestro
  • Strong understanding of API testing principles and tools, such as Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger, gRPCurl
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, such as GCP, and containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into the development workflow
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to diagnose complex technical issues.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working asynchronously in a remote-first, cross-functional team environment.
Bonus Points:
  • Experience with performance testing tools and methodologies
  • Familiarity with security testing principles and tools.
  • Familiarity with Python or C# 
  • Understanding of observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Prior experience working with FinTech products or regulated industries.
  • Knowledge of blockchain technologies, Bitcoin, or the Lightning Network protocol.
  • Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical communities.
Compensation and Benefits
  • Salary range: $110,000 - $125,000
  • Equity in a high-growth startup
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance premium contributions; short & long-term disability insurance and basic life insurance
  • Cell phone and internet reimbursement
  • Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
  • Access to a company 401k plan
Non US-Based positions
  • Location Dependent

We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply partner with talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team.

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