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Job description
Building the Future of Crypto Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. **What makes us different?** Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Responsibilities
### The opportunity
- Create comprehensive test plans before feature development, defining manual and automated testing strategies.
- Perform hands-on manual testing during development cycles to validate new features before automation.
- Balance manual exploratory testing with automation to catch edge cases that scripts might miss.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to define QA processes for a mission-critical trading platform.
- Lead automation initiatives end-to-end: strategy, implementation, CI/CD integration, and scaling coverage.
- Drive performance, security, and accessibility testing to deliver a top-tier experience for traders.
- Proactively document, report, and triage bugs to improve release quality and velocity.
Requirements
### Skills you should HODL
- Strong programming skills in Python, Rust or another automation-oriented language.
- Trading knowledge and experience - understanding of order types, trade execution, margin trading, and general financial markets (we'll support deepening your expertise, but foundational knowledge is essential).
- Proven ability to design comprehensive test plans before implementation, identifying what should be manually tested vs. automated.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining test automation frameworks on complex applications.
- Strong manual testing skills and ability to think creatively to uncover edge cases and unexpected bugs.
- Solid understanding of QA principles, including exploratory testing, regression testing, and bug tracking.
- Comfort with CI/CD integration and automation at scale.
- Detail-oriented mindset with a passion for building high-quality software and ability to think outside the box.
About Kraken
Kraken (legally Payward, Inc.) is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange that facilitates trading of cryptocurrencies, stocks, futures, and ETFs in most US states. It serves over 10 million clients worldwide with $207 billion in quarterly trading volume and has expanded to tokenized equities for non-US customers.