Full-Time

Lead Architect Testing

Updated on 9/3/2026

Deadline 12/31/26
Fractal

Fractal

1-10 employees

NFT marketplace for blockchain gaming assets

No salary listed

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In Person

Bachelor's

Category
QA & Testing (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Python
Software Testing
Apache Spark
SQL
Machine Learning
Data Engineering
Docker
Quality Assurance (QA)
Selenium
DevOps

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Requirements
  • The candidate must have 14 to 19 years of software testing experience.
  • The candidate must have at least 8 years of experience as a QA Engineer or in a similar capacity.
  • The candidate must have experience in ETL testing and creating data pipelines.
  • The candidate must have excellent experience with Python and SQL scripting.
  • The candidate must be an expert in automation testing and creating end-to-end use cases.
  • The candidate must have knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and techniques.
  • The candidate must have knowledge of DevOps principles.
  • The candidate must have experience working in an Agile environment.
  • The candidate must have experience as a test automation engineer across various development stages and integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines, including unit, integration, and load tests.
  • The candidate must have experience testing PySpark code and APIs.
  • The candidate must have experience with Python behavior-driven development test automation frameworks.
  • The candidate must have experience with Docker containers.
  • The candidate must have experience validating AI and machine learning models for accuracy, bias detection, and performance monitoring.
  • The candidate must have knowledge of AI-driven test automation platforms and their integration with CI/CD pipelines.
  • The candidate must have QA management experience.
  • The candidate must have experience with professional software engineering practices and best practices across the full software development life cycle.
  • The candidate must have experience improving product test coverage and effectiveness.
  • The candidate must have experience with Selenium automation testing using Python and Pytest.
  • The candidate must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering.
Responsibilities
  • The engineer will understand application architecture and end-user requirements and design and automate test cases to identify application flaws.
  • The role will participate in QA team activities through daily activity management, training, and mentoring.
  • The role will collaborate with stakeholders to improve quality standards and testing procedures.
  • The role will develop test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test data for different testing activities.
  • The role will define, implement, and maintain standard QA processes and methodologies for cloud, data, and application engineering efforts.
  • The role will collaborate with Product Owners and UX/UI Designers to understand use cases and develop corresponding test plans.
  • The role will collaborate with Product and Development Leads to develop and implement a product testing roadmap.
  • The role will work with development teams to establish quality standards for test automation, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, performance testing, and user acceptance testing.
  • The role will own end-to-end QA automation and manual quality assurance processes and execution.
  • The role will define and implement key performance indicators supporting end-to-end automation throughout the product development quality life cycle.
  • The role will leverage AI and machine learning models to improve test automation efficiency, defect prediction, and anomaly detection in data pipelines.
  • The role will integrate AI-driven testing tools to optimize regression testing, performance benchmarking, and intelligent test-case prioritization.
  • The role will coordinate and manage platform releases by overseeing test-case execution, documenting defects, and managing release deployment.
  • The role will troubleshoot quality issues and modify test procedures when applicable.

Fractal.is operates a blockchain-based marketplace for gaming NFTs where developers can list games and in-game assets and players can buy, sell, and trade unique digital items. The platform supports minting and secondary sales of NFTs, with transactions generating revenue through commissions. It emphasizes community engagement through channels like Discord and Twitter to drive listing activity and user retention. Compared to others, Fractal.is specializes in the gaming sector, aggregating multiple games and assets under one marketplace, and focuses on building a connected metaverse ecosystem for developers and gamers. Its goal is to grow a active, trusted marketplace that enables true ownership of digital assets and vibrant participation in the gaming/NFT space.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$35.2M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Stash still shows live product activity, with Fractal docs updated January 2026.
  • GamesBeat reported over 121 NFT collections across 85 games launched by June 2025.
  • Polygon integration in September 2024 widened distribution beyond Solana and attracted strategic investment.

What critics are saying

  • Web3 products sat in a holding pattern during 2024, undermining the original NFT thesis.
  • Stash must beat Shopify, Xsolla, and Unity-backed commerce tools by 2027.
  • If game studios skip direct web shops, Stash's transaction take-rate model dies.

What makes Fractal unique

  • Justin Kan pivoted Fractal into Stash in January 2024, targeting game commerce directly.
  • Stash offers white-label web shops, dynamic pricing, loyalty, and player-owned storefronts.
  • Its Fractal heritage still gives developer distribution, wallet, launcher, and onramp tooling.

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Company News

Dealflow
Oct 20th, 2024
Fractal raises $10m in funding

Renfe secured a €78 million contract, while Madrid-based Fractal raised $10 million led by Kayyak Ventures. Oakley Capital acquired a 70% stake in logistics software company Alerce, which has sales of around €12 million and EBITDA between €4 million and €5 million. Other funding news includes Shakers raising €6 million, Cocoon €2 million, and Kalma €1 million. Accenture acquired cybersecurity firm Innotec Security. Nauta led an €8.8 million Series A round in UK-based Spotted Zebra.

VentureBeat
Jun 6th, 2023
Fractal Unveils Fstudio Tools To Make Building Blockchain Games Easier

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Justin Kan’s Fractal is unveiling FStudio, a set of tools that make it easier for game studios to build, market and monetize Web3 games without blockchain expertise.Kan, the cofounder of Twitch who started Fractal in 2021 to build tools for blockchain games, believes that blockchain tech is the best way to get to a player-driven economy. But he said the problem is the gaming industry has become obsessed with talking about that backend technology – turning off players and distracting Web3 startups from the main mission: creating excellent gameplay experiences. To move forward, we need to refocus the conversation on the players, not the tech, Kan said in an interview with GamesBeat.“In the last eight months or so, we’ve been working on a bunch of features that help empower the next wave of developers for Web3 gaming,” Kan said. “We call it FStudio. We’re solving the problems that we learned from talking to developers

Decrypt
Jun 6th, 2023
Twitch Co-Founder's Fractal Launches Tools to Help Devs Build NFT Games

Gaming-centric Web3 startup and NFT marketplace Fractal has announced Fractal Studio, or FStudio, a three-part product the firm says will enable video game developers to more easily add crypto integrations into their titles without having to code.

Tingbits
May 11th, 2023
Mojo Melee: Planet Mojo's Epic Autobattler Now Live on Fractal

Mojo Melee introduces a unique collaboration with Fractal in addition to the open beta qualifier.

Decrypt
Jan 24th, 2023
Twitch Co-Founder’s Solana Gaming Platform Fractal Expands to Polygon - Decrypt

Fractal co-founder Justin Kan tells Decrypt that many game developers "want to be on Polygon" as the platform expands.