Senior QA Automation Engineer — Remote & Flexible Benefits

Software Mind; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and remote cooperation opções

International projects with leading全球

Travel related to international projec

Non-corporate atmosphere

Access to language classes

Access to knowledge-sharing Initiates

Private healthcare and life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join a client project in the gaming/payments space. You’ll own the test strategy, build automation frameworks for API and integration tests in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

You’ll work in a Scrum team and help ensure reliability across Kafka-driven systems on Go, with CI/CD integration. You have 5+ years in QA and 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems, experience with performance/load testing

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.

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

Test automation

Backend testing

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Go

CI/CD

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Job description

Software Mind is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join a client project in the gaming/payments space. You’ll own the test strategy, build automation frameworks for API and integration tests in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

You’ll work in a Scrum team and help ensure reliability across Kafka-driven systems on Go, with CI/CD integration. You have 5+ years in QA and 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems, experience with performance/load testing