Senior QA Automation Engineer - Go, Kafka & LiveOps

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

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.