Blockskye provides next-generation inventory booking, payment, and dynamic expense solutions for the travel and entertainment industries using blockchain. We connect suppliers and corporate buyers with blockchain technology thereby achieving greater transparency, trust, and efficiency in transaction, inventory, and booking management. Our solution is governed by industry stakeholders with a focus on supplier and corporate buyer participation. This inclusive approach has enabled us to deploy blockchain fairly quickly within the industry. We believe in interenterprise, realtime accounting integrations as a foundation for distributed ledger technology, private, and public blockchains.

Blockskye is seeking a Sr. Quality Analyst Lead who is responsible for ensuring that products and services meet the highest quality standards by leading a team of quality analysts, implementing test strategies, and collaborating with crossfunctional teams to drive continuous improvement. This role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, and a deep understanding of quality assurance methodologies and tools. This role will report directly to the Director of Software Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Quality Analysts, ensuring the right mix of offshore and nearshore talent while fostering a high-performance culture. Provide guidance, coaching, and strategic direction to enhance team efficiency and expertise.
• Drive the implementation and optimization of test automation frameworks, expanding automation coverage across functional, regression, performance, and API testing.
• Develop, refine, and enforce quality assurance processes, policies, and best practices to improve testing accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to define comprehensive test strategies, automation priorities, and quality benchmarks.
• Leverage data analytics to assess test coverage, defect trends, and automation impact, providing actionable insights to improve software quality.
• Establish and maintain robust test suites using automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Appium) to optimize testing workflows and accelerate releases.
• Ensure seamless integration of API testing by validating RESTful and SOAP services, monitoring system interactions, and automating complex workflows involving APIs, cron jobs, and data pipelines.
• Design and implement scalable, reusable automation scripts to maximize test coverage and reduce manual effort.
• Identify, document, and track defects, ensuring rapid resolution through root cause analysis and proactive process improvements.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on quality metrics, leveraging data-driven insights to assess product stability and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Champion test automation in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quality gates are in place to prevent defects from reaching production.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance automation capabilities, reporting accuracy, and testing efficiency.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in automation, API testing, and data-driven quality assurance to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• This revision strengthens the leadership aspect, integrates data analytics, and emphasizes API testing, cron jobs, and backend processes.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or a related role.
• 3-5 years of experience managing a team
• Proven experience hiring and leading a team of Quality Analysts or Test Engineers.
• Extensive experience with automation testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Appium) and API testing tools (e.g., Postman, REST Assured).
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and testing methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with test management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) and defect tracking systems.
• Expertise in performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner) is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for process optimization and automation.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive quality across crossfunctional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Monolithic LAMP Frameworks and Event Architecture.
• ISTQB certification or equivalent QA certification.
• Experience working in a cloudbased environment (AWS).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (PHP, Python, Node.js, etc.) for test automation.
• Experience in Travel, payment or Blockchain related fields
• Experience working in a startup or highgrowth company environment.

Why Join Us?

At Blockskye, we are redefining corporate travel and payment through blockchain technology. By joining our team, you'll be part of an innovative, forward-thinking company that values collaboration, operational excellence, and transformational leadership. We're building something exceptional, and we need a finance leader who can help us scale with confidence and precision. If you're ready to play a pivotal role in our growth story, we want to hear from you.

Please note, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Blockskye is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, or veteran status.