QA Engineer
Drift Protocol is an open-source decentralized exchange on Solana offering cross-margined perpetual futures trading with advanced risk management.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Drift Protocol
Drift Protocol provides decentralized perpetual futures trading on Solana with cross-margin capabilities, advanced order types, and risk management features. It combines traditional finance market structure with DeFi composability, offering spot trading, perpetual futures, and yield generation through a single unified margin account.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design and execute testing strategies for trading features, build and maintain automated frontend test suites, validate requirements, identify and document defects, collaborate with engineers on fixes, integrate QA into CI/CD, and monitor product health for regressions.
Requirements
- Detail-oriented mindset, proactive ownership, and passion for shipping flawless user experiences
- Experience in software QA or test automation roles, ideally within fintech, trading, or blockchain
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and testing types including functional, regression, performance, and security
- Familiarity with bug lifecycle management
- Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Jest, or Mocha
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and QA integration using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar
- Bonus: experience with Solana, DeFi protocols, or performance testing high-throughput systems
Responsibilities
- Own the testing strategy for the trading platform, including manual, automated, functional, and performance testing
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for frontend
- Develop and execute test cases to validate product requirements
- Identify, document, and track defects through resolution, collaborating with engineers to reproduce and fix issues
- Establish and evolve best practices for QA processes, tooling, and CI/CD integration
- Define acceptance criteria and quality benchmarks with product and engineering
- Proactively monitor product health and catch regressions early to ensure stable releases
Benefits
- Competitive crypto-native compensation (base plus token upside)
- Remote-first work in Asia
- Direct collaboration with Product and Engineering teams
- Fast-paced team with deep ownership
