Senior QA Automation Engineer – Remote & Kafka-Driven

Software Mind; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Multisport card

Language classes access

Knowledge-sharing initiatives

Travel opportunities

Remote cooperation

Job summary

Software Mind is joining a client team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud. You will own the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production and build an automation framework for API, contract and integration tests.

You will run resilience, performance and load tests, verify tenant isolation, and collaborate with the QA lead to improve testability across a distributed backend system.

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

Test strategy

Automation framework

QA for backend

Distributed systems testing

Kafka testing

Performance testing

CI/CD

Resilience testing

Tenant isolation

Test planning

Tools

Kafka

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Job description

Software Mind is joining a client team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud. You will own the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production and build an automation framework for API, contract and integration tests.

You will run resilience, performance and load tests, verify tenant isolation, and collaborate with the QA lead to improve testability across a distributed backend system.