Join an EPAM project in the cryptocurrency domain as a QA Automation Engineer and contribute to building a reliable, scalable quality engineering approach.
The role combines Python-based test automation with AI-assisted engineering. You’ll work with user-facing and back-office applications, analyze evolving requirements, design effective test scenarios, and help expand automated coverage across UI, API, and non-functional testing.
We are looking for an engineer who combines strong automation expertise with an analytical mindset and is comfortable using modern LLM-based tools and AI-assisted development practices to solve testing and engineering challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests for UI and API layers
- Analyze requirements, identify gaps and ambiguities, and translate them into testable scenarios
- Extend test coverage across functional and non-functional areas
- Improve existing automation frameworks, test strategies, and QA processes
- Collaborate with client and engineering teams to establish effective QA practices
- Work with relational databases using SQL and programmatic database connections
- Investigate defects and contribute to root-cause analysis
- Proactively identify and implement opportunities to improve product quality and delivery processes
- Apply AI-assisted approaches to test design, analysis, documentation, and other engineering activities
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, Pytest, Pydantic, and Requests
- Solid experience with UI automation, including Page Object Model, CSS selectors, and XPath
- Experience with REST API testing
- Experience with Allure
- Basic knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Practical experience with LLMs and AI-assisted development tools
- Understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, guardrails, and common AI anti-patterns
- Ability to break down complex tasks into structured steps for AI-assisted workflows
- Familiarity with Specification-Driven Development (SDD)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively with changing or incomplete requirements
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with technical and business stakeholders
- High level of ownership and ability to work independently
Nice to have
- Experience with Faker, Locust, Allure TestOps, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
- Experience with performance or non-functional testing
- Experience improving QA practices or automation frameworks within an established development environment
- Background in fintech, cryptocurrency, financial services, or other high-availability domains
Benefits
We connect like-minded people:
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
We invest in your growth:
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
We cover it all:
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Seven trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Discounts from 800+ partners (sports activities, restaurants, stores and services)
We connect like-minded people
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
We cover it all
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Five trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)
We connect like-minded people
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
We cover it all
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Four trust days per year for personal needs
- Discounts for fitness clubs
- Benefits package (hotels, restaurants, stores and services)
We connect like-minded people:
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth:
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
- Discounts in local language schools, including online courses for the Kazakh language
We cover it all:
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Medical & family care package
- Six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Coverage of psychology sessions of your choice
- Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)
- Housing support program: preferential mortgage access via Otbasy Bank partnership
We connect like-minded people:
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth:
We cover it all:
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Medical & family care package
- Four trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Discounts for fitness clubs, dance schools and sports programs
- Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)
We connect like-minded people:
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth:
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
We cover it all:
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Medical & family care package
- Six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Coverage of psychology sessions of your choice
- Discounts for fitness clubs and sports programs
- Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)