SDET - Java, Cucumber for API & Microservices

Zinkworks; Athlone; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Zinkworks is seeking highly motivated SDETs to join our engineering team. You will work in an agile squad, embedded with developers, architects, and DevOps to deliver high-performing microservices and backend APIs.

This hands-on QA role focuses on building robust automation, deep system analysis, and validating software under real-world conditions. Ideal candidates have extensive Java test automation experience, strong API testing skills, and familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in Java development for test automation.
• Experience with API testing and microservices testing in production-scale systems.
• Strong SQL knowledge and ability to validate stored procedures.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot/Spring Batch and Unix/Linux commands.
• Experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD tooling.
• Knowledge of Redis and Kafka in distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for microservices, APIs and data pipelines.
• Perform Backend API testing, Database validation, and Integration testing.
• Write BDD tests using Cucumber in a Java-based test framework (JUnit, Maven, Gradle).
• Automate tests for Spring Boot and Spring Batch apps deployed to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Validate SQL queries and complex data transformations.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines (UDeploy, Jenkins).
• Collaborate with developers to define test coverage and quality metrics.
• Use Unix/Linux commands for log analysis, deployment, and validation in distributed environments.
• Work with Kubernetes/OpenShift for container orchestration.
• Interact with distributed systems like Kafka and Redis.

Skills

Java development

API testing

SQL

Unix/Linux

CI/CD

Tools

Cucumber

JUnit

Maven/Gradle

OpenShift

Kubernetes

UDeploy

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Zinkworks is seeking highly motivated SDETs to join our engineering team. You will work in an agile squad, embedded with developers, architects, and DevOps to deliver high-performing microservices and backend APIs.

This hands-on QA role focuses on building robust automation, deep system analysis, and validating software under real-world conditions. Ideal candidates have extensive Java test automation experience, strong API testing skills, and familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes.