QA Lead (Draft)

As our QA Lead, you will be responsible for implementing and overseeing a standardized QA process across our teams. You will establish both manual and automated testing frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage for all our products, including systematic trading components where unit tests may be lacking.

You will work closely with product and engineering teams to define testing strategies, ensure best practices, and lead a growing QA team. Initially, you will manage a small team (two direct reports), scaling it to 8-10+ members over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a QA team.
• Ensure quality standards across all departments. Develop and implement a comprehensive QA strategy covering both manual and automated testing.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define test requirements and strategies. Identify gaps in existing unit tests and work with engineering teams to address them.
• Provide guidance on balancing automated vs. manual testing based on project needs.

Must Haves

• Proven experience leading QA teams, ideally scaling from small teams to 8-10+ members.
• Strong background in QA methodologies, both manual and automated testing.
• Experience in a trading firm or financial technology company, with domain understanding of systematic trading systems and best practices for testing systematic trading systems.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with GoogleTest.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Experience working with data pipelines.

Interview Process

1. Our partner and VP Eng will review your CV.
2. Our VP of Engineering will conduct the first round of interviews.
3. Our partner will conduct an additional round of interviews on technical and cultural fit.
4. Additional rounds may be conducted as necessary with other team members or our partners.

Throughout the process, you'll be assessed for cultural fit through our company values:

1. Drive - We believe the best team members are passionate about what they do, and that propels them to greater heights in their career. It drives them to be part of the best teams where they are exposed to the best ideas.
2. Ownership - We aim to give ownership interest to as many people in the firm as possible, but in return, we expect everyone to act like owners. "Not my responsibility" is a repugnant phrase to us.
3. Judgment - We look for team members who consistently look at the big picture and spend their time on the activities that most drive PnL. They are pragmatic with their time; they don't stick to their narrow domain if it doesn't move the needle.
4. Openness - We want a culture where we proactively share information with one another and challenge each other with constructive debate to reach the truth.
5. Competence - We value people with high intellectual horsepower. They have already become an expert in one or more domains and learn extremely quickly when in unfamiliar territory.

We are a rapidly growing crypto hedge fund, 2 years old, managing a 9-figure AUM, generating 200%+ annualized returns with a 4 Sharpe.

We've grown to a team of ~40 across Trading & Research, Tech, and Operations.

This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly growing team and industry. Each member of our team can make large, impactful contributions -- for which we compensate very well, with long-term upside.