Senior QA Engineer

Pacifica Continental

19h•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join a first crypto casino platform operating in a real-money, high-transaction environment. This is a foundational QA role: you will be the first QA engineer in the company, with full ownership to design, build, and scale the QA automation strategy from scratch. Quality is a top priority for the business, and this role plays a critical part in ensuring transactional integrity, system reliability, and user trust.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer / SDET
Strong experience with test automation, not manual-only profiles
Proven experience building or owning automation frameworks
Solid background testing APIs and backend systems
Experience with transactional or critical systems (payments, fintech, crypto, iGaming, wallets, high-traffic platforms)
Strong understanding of:
Distributed systems
Event-driven architectures
Data consistency and state validation
Comfortable working independently with high ownership
Experience working in remote teams
Based in LATAM (required)

Nice To Haves

Experience in iGaming or crypto platforms
Experience as the first QA in a team or startup
Exposure to production monitoring and post-release validation
Performance or load testing experience

Responsibilities

Own the QA strategy end-to-end, with a strong focus on automation-first testing
Design and implement test automation frameworks from scratch
Validate transactional flows such as:
Wallet balances
Debits / credits
Retries and idempotency
Rollbacks and partial failures
Ensure frontend behavior always matches backend state
Perform API and backend-heavy testing, with frontend validation as part of E2E flows
Define and execute integration, regression, and end-to-end tests
Work closely with backend engineers to validate events, services, and data consistency
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
Identify edge cases and failure scenarios in real-money systems
Document QA processes, test coverage, and quality metrics
Act as a quality owner, not just an executor