Senior Quality Engineer - Remote Backend Automation

Five9; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five9 Shares

Bonus Scheme

10% Flex Benefit

Meal Allowance

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

25 day Annual Leave + Public Holidays

Job summary

Five9 is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join the Core Software Quality Engineering team. You will own and automate the testing of a complex backend and frontend REST APIs, while modernizing the Python-based testing framework.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable releases and improve testing speed and reliability. You will design and maintain end-to-end tests for the VCC application, analyze results, and contribute to CI/CD improvements, helping reduce flaky tests and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in test automation with framework ownership
• Hands-on Python 3; other OOP languages a plus
• Strong knowledge of programming techniques, including OOP and multithreading
• Experience automating REST APIs and/or SDK interfaces (Python/Java/C++)
• Solid Linux skills and understanding of SDLC and testing methodologies
• Experience with version control and issue tracking (Git, JIRA)
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; collaborative cross-team work

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain end-to-end automated tests for Five9 VCC app
• Analyze test results and investigate failures to root cause
• Extend and support the Python automation framework and build internal testing tools
• Modernize the framework with CI/CD integration, parallel execution, and reduce flaky tests
• Identify weak points in automated flows and improve efficiency
• Partner with Development, DevOps, and TechOps to align automation priorities
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute ideas to tools and processes

Skills

Test automation

Python 3

OOP & Multithreading

REST API testing

Linux

SDLC knowledge

Git & JIRA

Analytical skills

Tools

Selenium

pytest

Robot Framework

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Five9 is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join the Core Software Quality Engineering team. You will own and automate the testing of a complex backend and frontend REST APIs, while modernizing the Python-based testing framework.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable releases and improve testing speed and reliability. You will design and maintain end-to-end tests for the VCC application, analyze results, and contribute to CI/CD improvements, helping reduce flaky tests and