Senior Software Engineer Quality Engineering SDET
Startale Group is an onchain technology company providing blockchain ecosystems, developer infrastructure, consumer applications and digital-asset products.
Funding history
About Startale Group Pte. Ltd.
Startale Group Pte. Ltd. is the company identified in the Startale Cloud Services terms and operates the Startale Developer Platform. The wider Startale ecosystem also includes consumer applications and stablecoin products operated by distinct affiliated entities: Startale Labs (BVI) Ltd provides Startale App, and Startale Development (BVI) Ltd operates the Startale USD website and its swap and vault features. Group funding and hiring remain attributed to Startale Group.
Skills
About the Role
Work as an SDET software engineer on either the fully on-chain Strium exchange or Startale App, defining quality and release standards, building end-to-end automation, validating trading and API behavior, modernizing testing infrastructure, running performance tests, and creating reproducible test environments and data.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Advanced English proficiency
- Write production-quality software
- Build scalable automated test frameworks and reusable test libraries from scratch
- 5+ years of experience in SDET, quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering
- Practical experience with Playwright, Cypress, REST, JSON-RPC, or WebSocket testing
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Docker and containerized testing environments
- Experience testing complex distributed systems, fintech, or financial products
- Ability to work autonomously as the sole QA or SDET for a product or team
- Ability and motivation to learn unfamiliar domains quickly
- Blockchain experience is not required
Responsibilities
- Define quality standards, release criteria, and quality metrics
- Design, build, and operate scalable end-to-end automated testing frameworks
- Validate execution paths, price impact, fee calculations, and user paths for Strium
- Modernize, optimize, and expand the existing end-to-end testing infrastructure for Startale App
- Test API responses and consistency with frontend behavior
- Conduct API load and stress testing for high-throughput systems
- Design reproducible testing environments and test data
- Define testable acceptance criteria with engineering and product teams
- Build automated tests through CI/CD
- Use AI for test generation, development workflows, and test maintenance
Benefits
- Stock option program
- Hybrid work with conditional full remote work
- Annual company workation
- Flexible discretionary leave policy
Hiring Process
Casual interview, document screening, first interview, second interview, trial assignment, final interview, and offer discussion. The process may include 1–3 interviews, meetings with multiple members, and a final-stage reference check. Selection generally takes 2–5 weeks; interviews are usually online.