Senior QA Operations Engineer

What are we all about?
We are a team of builders and researchers on a mission to empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralized systems.

Our expertise covers several domains: Ethereum and Starknet protocol engineering, layer-2, cryptography research, protocol research, decentralized finance (DeFi), security auditing, formal verification, real-time monitoring, smart contract development, and dapps and enterprise engineering.

Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with, such as Ethereum Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Gnosis Chain, Flashbots, Forta Protocol, Lido, EigenLayer, Open Zeppelin, RISCZero, Aleph Zero, and many more.

Are you the one?

Nethermind builds many developer-facing tools that need to work seamlessly in this fast-paced blockchain. This ecosystem needs contributors with quality-mindset, capable of applying their systematic critical thinking and QA practices to improve its components. Your meticulous review and processes could mean the difference between a flawless network upgrade and a community forking event. Do you have what it takes?

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with the development team to introduce quality focus on all stages of the development lifecycle
Perform software testing in all phases of the software life cycle

Implement, run and monitor automated tests

Design and implement efficient reporting of test results

Monitor the infrastructure with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, OpsGenie

Write scripts and even full applications with the language of your choice that can help us improve QA process

Skills:

Track record of leading Software Quality Assurance projects and initiatives
Extensive experience designing and executing manual and automated tests
Experience with issue-tracking systems
Experience with performance testing tools and performance metrics monitoring
Knowledge of at least one programming and scripting language
Understanding of CI/CD tools and processes
Awareness of Docker and Docker Compose
An entrepreneurial nature, willing to take ownership and run toward problems
Very good communicator
Nice to have:

Computer science background
Experience in testing internet-facing web applications
Cloud applications experience
Blockchain experience