Senior Manual QA Engineer - Instalabs

What is the job?

Instalabs is on the hunt for their very first Manual QA Engineer wizard to join their team and be an important part of an exciting, rapidly growing FinTech business in the decentralized finance space!

You will challenge all user scenarios and test cases to investigate all possibilities of failure across a range of Web apps, and API applications. You will make sure that happy path scenarios function as advertised, and that a massive array of potential error conditions all fail gracefully, predictably and in a meaningful way to end users.

During your first few weeks, you will start by defining the tools and frameworks required to have a complete suite of manual tests. This will involve diving into the applications features and functionality. With a better understanding under your belt, you will define test plans that cover UI and API testing, as well as testing failures in any of the subsystems, including databases, third-party services or other internal services.

What are we looking for?

• You enjoy testing everything and understand the need to do exploratory manual testing to create test plans.
• You have experience testing Web apps, APIs applications in a fast delivering growth environment.
• You are a hands-on, independent product tester with experience working in a multidisciplinary team formed of designers, Front and Backend developers and DevOps.
• You’re moderately paranoid with great attention to details. Especially when it comes to testing payment systems.
• You’re patient when dealing with others. You’re a good listener, and happy to be a teacher when needed.

What skills do you need?

• You have solid demonstrable experience as a QA Engineer doing end-to-end testing

• You love breaking things and let your creativity go wild (e.g. functional and black-box testing, regression testing, load testing, manual testing)

• Docker, SQL, and Git experience is important
• You have good knowledge and understanding of CI/CD cycles
• Please note: we can only consider UK based candidates at this time

Who are we?

At Instalabs, we're a team of like-minded thinkers who have long been convinced that we're living in the earliest stages of a global financial revolution. This revolution is being fuelled by decentralized finance (or DeFi for short), which is enabling an assortment of pioneering developers and entrepreneurs to re-invent almost every financial product that is currently traded and invested in traditional markets, without requiring central authorities or siloed infrastructure. DeFi has captured a great deal of attention and investment in the crypto-aware niche, growing assets under management from $1 billion to over $200 billion in a few years. Impressive as its growth has been, its current market size isn't even a rounding error on the over $400 trillion held in traditional finance. We're focused on what it will take to go from billions to trillions.

Instalabs is building a suite of solutions to one of the key DeFi issues, which is the difficulty dApps face in adhering to regulations that require them to conduct detailed AML/KYC checks.

The Instapass product offers a seamless way to connect web2 KYC and AML models to the web3 decentralized ecosystem, maintaining the user's privacy across web3 while ensuring compliance. Instabridge allows for compliant cross-chain transactions and ultimately the migration of real world assets on-chain in a compliant way. This brings flexibility to how traders operate, unlocks cross-chain liquidity, and facilitates the migration of the wider financial ecosystem on chain.

If this job sounds like it was made for you, then please apply directly via the link or email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Alternatively, if you feel like you don’t match all of the requirements, we would love you to still apply anyway. We understand that confidence gaps and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates and we wouldn’t want this to prevent us from meeting you; especially as we are big advocates of helping people learn & grow. This is also another reason we do not advertise salaries, we want to keep it as even a playing field as possible!