About DFYNE:

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About the role — DFYNE Your Career:

Before I tell you more about the role, let me introduce myself. I’m Bruce, Head of Development at DFYNE, and I’m looking for our first dedicated Senior QA Automation Engineer. This is a hands-on engineering role that will help define quality engineering across DFYNE. Reporting directly to the Head of Development, you will work alongside our Staff Software Engineer to build the test infrastructure, automation coverage and quality gates that allow our teams to move quickly without compromising reliability. You will help protect systems that handle commission payouts, refunds, inventory synchronisation, shipping labels and other business-critical processes where quality has a direct commercial impact.

Attitude:

• Ownership mentality

• Engineering-first approach

• Attention to detail

• Risk-based thinking

• Continuous improvement

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain integration test infrastructure that runs against real databases and realistic service environments.

• Design and implement automated regression coverage across business-critical workflows.

• Own CI quality gates and contribute to release readiness processes.

• Develop end-to-end testing coverage for revenue-critical customer journeys.

• Create and maintain realistic and secure test data strategies.

• Work closely with engineers to identify and prevent quality risks early in the development lifecycle.

• Improve test reliability, execution speed and developer adoption.

• Support incident investigations by identifying testing gaps and opportunities for preventative coverage.

• Contribute to engineering standards, software quality practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operations teams to ensure quality requirements are understood and delivered.

Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in QA Automation, SDET or software engineering with a quality focus.

• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience.

• Deep integration testing experience using real dependencies including databases, queues and simulated third-party services.

• Strong Playwright, Cypress or equivalent end-to-end testing experience.

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD quality gates, ideally using GitHub Actions.

• Strong understanding of automated testing strategies and risk-based testing approaches.

• Experience building scalable, maintainable test frameworks.

• Ability to write production-quality code.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical capability.

• Nice to Have: