Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join The Block, a leading research and news brand in digital assets, as a Senior QA Engineer. You will be a hands-on contributor ensuring product quality, writing and maintaining automated and manual tests, improving developer productivity, and supporting code shipping. A key role involves integrating modern AI tools to scale QA coverage and streamline workflows. This high-impact role requires 6–8 years of experience in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate effectively communicates, prioritizes tasks, and builds resilient systems. The Block offers a remote-first work environment, strong benefits, and a mission-driven culture focused on shaping the future of finance.

Requirements

• 6–8 years of professional experience in quality assurance or software testing
• Deep understanding of test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Mocha, Chai, etc)
• Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate test creation, bug diagnosis, or regression coverage
• Strong experience with GitHub workflows, version control, and collaborative engineering environments
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux CLI and scripting for test and build automation
• Prior experience working in agile development teams, CI/CD pipelines, and fast-moving startup environments

Responsibilities

• Lead QA strategy for key product initiatives, from test planning to implementation and automation
• Build and maintain both unit and end-to-end tests using modern frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Mocha, etc)
• Use AI tooling (e.g. Claude, Codex, Cursor) to streamline test writing, refactoring, bug reproduction, and documentation
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to ensure a quality-first approach across all releases
• Investigate, triage, and verify issues reported by users or internal stakeholders
• Support continuous integration (CI) pipelines and help define deployment-readiness criteria
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and QA retrospectives to continuously improve quality culture
• Contribute to test documentation, regression libraries, and quality benchmarks

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to blockchain products, financial platforms, or web3 ecosystems

Benefits

• Remote-first. Work from anywhere
• Unlimited PTO, monthly wellness stipend, generous parental leave
• High employer health plan contributions, 401(k) match, fertility benefits, One Medical & CitiBike memberships