Senior Test Automation Engineer IV

OpenX; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 252,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employment contract (PLN gross monthly

B2B hourly option

Cloud technologies (GCP)

Flexible hours & remote work

Various health & life benefits

Parking

Training & workshops

Job summary

OpenX Poland in Krakow is seeking a Senior SDET to join the Platform Team focusing on the Marketplace UI/API testing. You will own test automation frameworks for TypeScript/Playwright frontends and Java/Python APIs, influencing testing strategies for a high-scale ad marketplace.

The role emphasizes building new testing frameworks, risk-based testing, and collaboration across SDETs and engineers in an agile setup. Remote option available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in test automation or SDET work.
• Strong hands-on TypeScript and Playwright experience.
• Solid API testing experience in Java and/or Python (pytest).
• Practical knowledge of test design and risk-based testing.
• CI/CD tooling experience and automated CI environments.
• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Spinnaker.
• Excellent troubleshooting and agile teamwork; Polish & English fluent.

Responsibilities

• Own, build, and evolve UI (TypeScript/Playwright) and API tests for Marketplace workflows.
• Improve reliability, speed, and maintainability of test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in all development phases from requirements to deployment.
• Identify quality risks early with stakeholders and apply risk-based testing.
• Investigate flaky tests and production issues; drive root-cause fixes.
• Communicate quality risks and trade-offs clearly to teams.

Skills

TypeScript

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Spinnaker

Polish & English

Tools

Pytest

Job description

Company At a GlanceOpenX is focused on unleashing the full economic potential of digital media companies. We do this by making digital advertising markets and technologies that are designed to deliver optimal value to publishers and advertisers on every ad served across all screens.

Company At a GlanceOpenX is focused on unleashing the full economic potential of digital media companies. We do this by making digital advertising markets and technologies that are designed to deliver optimal value to publishers and advertisers on every ad served across all screens.

At OpenX, we have built a team that is uniquely experienced in designing and operating high-scale ad marketplaces, and we are constantly on the lookout for thoughtful, creative executors who are as fascinated as we are about finding new ways to apply a blend of market design, technical innovation, operational excellence, and empathetic partner service to the frontiers of digital advertising.

At OpenX Poland, we are looking for a talented, communicative, and curious Software Development Engineer IV in Test to join our team in Cracow, Poland.

You will join the Platform Team at OpenX, specifically focusing on the Marketplace, which is responsible for the maintenance and development of the UI and API components of our platform. Our exchange handles billions of ad requests every day, connecting thousands of publishers with demand partners across the global advertising ecosystem. The platform runs in the cloud across multiple regions and operates at a scale where performance, reliability, correctness, and every millisecond matter.

You will be part of a cross-functional platform engineering team focused on the Marketplace workflows that support how our core exchange operates. The components and tools help internal and external users manage marketplace settings, configure integrations for publishers and demand partners, review transaction setups, and ensure that platform behavior aligns with optimal liquidity and exchange performance.

In this senior SDET role, you will take strong ownership not only of test automation, but also of building new frameworks and maintaining existing ones — for TypeScript-based frontend applications as well as for API testing. This role is ideal for someone who wants to go beyond just testing and work on creating and maintaining test frameworks and testing approaches used across the organization.

The primary stack for this role includes: TypeScript, Playwright, React-based applications, Java, Python, Pytest, Spinnaker (CI/CD). The broader engineering environment also includes Node.js, GraphQL, GCP, and Kubernetes.

You do not need to be an expert in every part of our stack, but you definitely need to be eager to grow in those directions and bring a can-do attitude.

Prior AdTech experience is helpful, but not required.

Our Benefits (on Employment Contract)

• Employment contract (22 595 - 25 254 PLN gross/monthly) OR B2B (181 - 202 PLN net/hourly)
• Working with the newest technologies such as Cloud Computing (GCP)
• Challenges at work that are difficult to find anywhere else!
• Solving important problems in a scale
• Joining a company that is growing and scaling
• Flexible working hours & remote work option

Key Responsibilities

• Own, build, and evolve UI (TypeScript/Playwright) and API (Java/Python) test automation frameworks used across the organization, designing and maintaining tests across both layers for complex Marketplace workflows and integrations.
• Improve the reliability, speed, and maintainability of test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Be involved in all phases of platform development, from requirements and architecture design to validation, deployment, and release readiness.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders across the organization to identify quality risks early, applying risk-based testing to make pragmatic coverage decisions across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end levels.
• Investigate test failures, flaky tests, and production issues, driving root cause analysis with actionable improvements.
• Communicate quality risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in test automation or software engineering in test, including hands‑on experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks, not just writing tests within them.
• Strong hands‑on experience with TypeScript and Playwright (or a comparable frontend framework such as Cypress).
• Solid experience with API testing in Java and/or Python, ideally with pytest.
• Practical knowledge of test design techniques and risk‑based testing.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines, and improving automated test execution in CI environments.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Spinnaker, or similar cloud and deployment technologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, able to triage complex issues across application, test, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience working in an agile engineering environment.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable working with SDETs, software engineers, and stakeholders across the organization.
• Communicative Polish and English.

Our Benefits (on Employment Contract)

• Annual performance bonus
• Tax‑deductible system due to copyright protection: 75%
• Private health care for you and your family (covered by OpenX)
• Private life and travel insurance
• MultiKafeteria program
• Training: access to the LinkedIn Learning platform and Tech workshops
• Holiday Allowance
• Pension scheme (PPK from PZU)
• Additional paid day off
• Free parking lot
• Access to peer-to-peer recognition platform
• Monthly work-from-home allowance and one‑time payment when you join us to help you set up your home office
• We celebrate team members' important personal milestones (vouchers, gifts)

OpenX VALUES

Our five company values form a solid bedrock serving to define us as a group and guide the company. Our values remind us that how we do things often matters as much as what we do.

WE ARE ONE

We are one team. There are no exceptions. We are a group of strong and diverse individuals unified by a shared mission. We embrace challenges and win together as a team. We respect and care about our colleagues and cultivate an inclusive culture

WE ARE CUSTOMER CENTRIC

We innovate on behalf of our customers. We understand, respect, and listen carefully to our customers. We build great products to solve our customers’ problems. We manage our customers’ expectations clearly and honestly. We are a trusted partner to all of our customers - we act with integrity at all times. We care.

OPENX IS OURS

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We all have a voice to improve OpenX

We stake our personal and professional reputations on the excellence of our work

We are not interested in just "doing our jobs"; we take ownership to drive results

WE ARE AN OPEN BOOK

We understand and respect what each of us does. We are eager to teach and share what we know with others, both internally and externally. We are eager to learn from others and we ask questions internally and externally.

WE EVOLVE FAST

We take responsible risks and own and learn from our mistakes. We recognize and repeat success. We actively seek out and provide constructive feedback. We adapt quickly and embrace change. We tackle growth and learning with real urgency. We are endlessly curious.

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HUMBLE

Ideal team players are humble and demonstrate integrity. They put the team's success above their own, share credit generously, and value collective achievements. They are self‑assured, open to coaching, and committed to continuous learning.

DRIVEN

Ideal team players are results‑driven and motivated. They are curious, always seeking more to do, learn, and take on. As proactive problem‑solvers, they take initiative without needing external motivation. They continuously think about the next steps and opportunities for improvement.

SMART

Ideal team players are smart and possess the intellectual acumen to understand the complexities of our organization and industry. They are interpersonally intelligent, good communicators, and exemplify sound judgment in their interactions across the company to foster a collaborative environment.

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