Remote Backend QA Engineer - Automate Transactions

Jobgether SRL; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work across Europe

Up to 28 days off per year

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Backend QA Engineer to own software quality for a high-traffic backend platform. You will combine manual testing with automated test development, validating complex transaction lifecycles, API integrations, and event-driven workflows across distributed services.

You will develop and maintain automated test suites using TypeScript and Playwright, strengthen regression coverage, and ensure testing efficiency in a fully remote European environment.

Qualifications

• At least four years of professional experience in manual and automated software testing.
• Hands-on testing across backend systems in a distributed microservices environment.
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Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories to design comprehensive test cases, scenarios, and validation strategies.
• Perform end-to-end testing of transaction lifecycles, including initiation, authorization, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Proactively explore the system to identify edge cases, unexpected behaviors, potential risks, and defects.
• Develop, maintain, and improve automated regression test suites using TypeScript and Playwright, prioritizing critical business workflows and high-risk functionality.
• Automate API testing and validate REST and gRPC endpoints using tools such as Postman, grpcurl, or equivalent solutions.
• Test event-driven architectures and message-based workflows involving technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS, including retry mechanisms, duplicate message handling, and failure scenarios.
• Execute regression testing following deployments, combining automated and manual testing wherever automation coverage remains incomplete.
• Document, report, and track defects in Jira, providing clear reproduction steps, relevant request payloads, service logs, and supporting evidence.
• Validate data consistency across backend services using SQL queries and database checks when necessary.
• Collaborate with backend developers and other stakeholders to investigate defects, verify fixes, improve test coverage, and strengthen overall software quality.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, testing standards, and automation practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

TypeScript

Playwright

API testing

Postman

SQL queries

Docker

Go familiarity

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Agile/Scrum

English communication

UAT support

Tools

Postman

TestRail

Zephyr

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Backend QA Engineer to own software quality for a high-traffic backend platform. You will combine manual testing with automated test development, validating complex transaction lifecycles, API integrations, and event-driven workflows across distributed services.

You will develop and maintain automated test suites using TypeScript and Playwright, strengthen regression coverage, and ensure testing efficiency in a fully remote European environment.