[MEX] Senior QA Automation Engineer

Softwaremind; Poland; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote cooperation

International projects

Travel opportunities related to global

Non-corporate atmosphere

Language classes access

Knowledge-sharing initiatives access

Private healthcare and life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind is joining a client's engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client's technical lead, owning the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production.

The role emphasizes building automation frameworks for API and contract testing, resilience testing, and CI/CD integration, while collaborating with the client's QA lead to improve testability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA, 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems.
• Testing event-driven systems such as Kafka.
• Performance and load testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter.
• Resilience or chaos testing and fault injection.
• Building automation frameworks from scratch, including API and contract testing.
• CI/CD integration and quality gates.
• Fluent English (B2+).

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production.
• Build the automation framework for API, contract and integration tests.
• Run resilience testing with fault injection and failure scenarios.
• Test duplicate events, idempotency, ordering and retries on Kafka.
• Verify plugin failure containment and tenant isolation.
• Run performance, load and stress tests and analyze bottlenecks.
• Define quality gates and integrate suites into CI/CD.
• Partner with the client's QA lead and coach developers on testability.

Skills

QA experience

Backend testing

Event-driven testing

Performance testing

Chaos testing

Automation framework

CI/CD

English

Tools

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Kafka

Job description

Project - the aim you'll have

Our client is a global video-game commerce company whose payments and monetization tools are used by leading game studios worldwide. Software Mind is joining the client's engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud, letting internal teams extend LiveOps through a strict plugin interface. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client's technical lead.

Role - how you'll contribute

• Own the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production
• Build the automation framework for API, contract and integration tests
• Run resilience testing with fault injection and failure scenarios
• Test duplicate events, idempotency, ordering and retries on Kafka
• Verify plugin failure containment and tenant isolation
• Run performance, load and stress tests and analyze bottlenecks
• Define quality gates and integrate suites into CI/CD
• Partner with the client's QA lead and coach developers on testability

Expectations - the experience you need

• 5+ years in QA, 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems
• Testing event-driven systems such as Kafka
• Performance and load testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter
• Resilience or chaos testing and fault injection
• Building automation frameworks from scratch, including API and contract testing
• CI/CD integration and quality gates
• Fluent English (B2+)

Additional skills - the edge you have

• Multi-tenant testing and tenant isolation
• Go test automation
• Statistical testing of probability-based features
• Gaming, iGaming or payments background

What we offer:

• Flexible and remote cooperation options
• International projects with leading global clients
• Travels related to international projects
• Non-corporate atmosphere
• Access* to language classes
• Access* to knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Access* to private healthcare and life insurance
• Access* to multisport card

*The availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation.