Senior SDET
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Job description
As a Senior/Staff QA Engineer at Ledger, you'll work across multiple product squads and collaborate closely with both QA Engineers and QA Automation Engineers. Your role mixes hands-on test automation, high-level quality strategy, and practical manual testing where it matters. You'll help teams build reliable automation, raise overall quality standards, and guide them toward owning the quality of their deliverables., * Designing and improving tools, workflows, and processes that strengthen quality across the SDLC.
- Performing manual testing when automation is not practical or when deep exploratory validation is required.
- Build new and maintain existing workflows for CI/CD pipelines
- Maintaining automation frameworks and test tooling (primarily TypeScript; Python appreciated but optional).
- Improving test coverage and helping teams integrate automated testing into their development routines.
- Integrating automated testing into Quality Assurance practices
- Running workshops, coaching sessions, and pair-testing/pair-programming to raise automation maturity across teams.
- Communicating with product squads about the improvements following the strategy, sharing of experiences, best practices and lessons learnt., At Ledger, we are dedicated to continually investing in our employees which is why we offer more than just salaries; we provide comprehensive compensation packages that include a wide range of benefits. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- Flexible work options - Our hybrid policy allows employees to work from home up to 3 times per week
- Health & Wellness support - Health and Life Insurance.
- Financial growth opportunities - Employees can become shareholders in Ledger as well as other financial benefits depending on your country of work.
- Commuter allowance - Ledger offers a commuter allowance to contribute to your preferred means of transportation.
- Learning & Development - A comprehensive suite of training solutions providing a personalised learning experience for every employee.
Requirements
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Hands-on experience in developing test automation solutions using Typescript (Python is optional)
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Proficiency using QA Automation Frameworks : Playwright, Detox or Selenium
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Proficient in front-end and back-end testing tools and approaches
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Good knowledge of development processes, design patterns and programming principles
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Prior experience designing workflows and building CI/CD pipelines
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Able to work effectively across multiple teams, build strong technical relationships, and operate in a highly collaborative environment.
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Curious, pragmatic, and innovative - you stay current with industry trends, challenge assumptions, and identify opportunities to improve quality and engineering efficiency. Strong communication and influence skills in spoken and written English, capable of explaining risks, trade-offs, and technical constraints clearly to both engineers and non-engineers.
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Broad technical awareness across different codebases, platforms, and testing approaches, with the ability to quickly understand new areas and guide teams toward better quality practices.
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Solid understanding of Bash/shell scripting and comfortable working with Kubernetes-based infrastructure (logs, pods, CI environments, debugging test environments, etc.).