Automation QA Engineer – Senior

Softswiss; Georgia; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Sports benefits

Free English lessons

Local language courses

Paid time off

Maternity leave support

Referral program rewards

Upskilling and workshops

Job summary

SOFTSWISS is seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer to design and improve automated testing frameworks for our online casino platform. You will ensure reliable coverage across UI, API, and distributed services, driving test quality, feedback speed, and maintainability.

You will work with engineers to enhance testability, resolve systemic issues, and guide automation practices. English and Russian proficiency are required at intermediate-to-upper levels.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of test automation experience with Java UI and API testing.
• Experience designing, building, and evolving test automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Java, OOP, design principles and programming patterns.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI, Docker and PostgreSQL.
• Experience testing distributed systems and investigating complex failures across services.
• Ability to assess automation architecture and make sound trade-off decisions around test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Design and continuously improve automated testing approaches and frameworks.
• Write and review automated tests for complex product functionality.
• Improve test reliability, feedback time, reporting and CI execution.
• Investigate systemic test and environment issues and coordinate resolution.
• Guide automation code reviews and raise quality standards across the team.
• Work with engineers to improve testability and delivery processes.
• Identify practical opportunities to use AI in testing workflows and validate results.

Skills

Java

UI testing

API testing

GitLab CI

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems testing

AI tools in testing

English proficiency (Intermediate+)

Russian proficiency (Upper-interm.)

OOP design principles

Docker

Selenide

REST Assured

Kafka

WebSockets

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

WebSockets

Kubernetes

Job description

SOFTSWISS is hiring a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our Team. We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on professional to build and improve automated testing frameworks, ensure the quality of complex product functionality, and help deliver reliable features for our actively evolving online casino platform.

About Product:

The SOFTSWISS Casino Platform is the core infrastructure operators rely on to launch, manage and scale their online casino businesses. It supports mission-critical operations, including account management, game operations, responsible gaming and regulatory compliance.

You’ll contribute to mission-critical systems covering account management, game operations, responsible gaming, and regulatory compliance, in an environment where reliability, scalability, and business impact matter, working with people who build solutions operators depend on.

Purpose of the role:

You will be responsible for designing and improving automated testing frameworks that ensure reliable coverage of complex product functionality across UI, APIs and distributed services, while helping the team improve test quality, feedback time and maintainability.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and continuously improve automated testing approaches and frameworks.
• Write and review automated tests for complex product functionality.
• Improve test reliability, feedback time, reporting and CI execution.
• Investigate systemic test and environment issues, and coordinate their resolution.
• Guide automation code reviews and help raise quality standards across the team.
• Work with engineers and other teams to improve testability and delivery processes.
• Identify practical opportunities to use AI in testing workflows, validate the results and share effective practices.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of test automation experience, including substantial hands‑on work with Java, UI and API testing.
• Experience designing, building and evolving test automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Java, OOP, design principles and programming patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with GitLab CI, Docker and PostgreSQL.
• Experience testing distributed systems and investigating complex failures across services.
• Ability to assess automation architecture and make sound trade‑offs around test coverage, reliability and maintenance.
• Practical experience using AI tools in testing or development workflows and evaluating their output.
• English proficiency is at Intermediate level or higher.
• Russian proficiency is at Upper-intermediate level or higher.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Selenide, REST Assured or similar Java testing tools.
• Experience with Allure or ReportPortal.
• Experience testing systems that use Kafka, Redis or WebSockets.
• Familiarity with AOP or the Java Reflection API.
• Experience with Kubernetes or improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience mentoring engineers or establishing automation practices across a team.

Main Advantages

• Private health insurance
• Sports benefits
• Free English lessons (online)
• Local language courses
• Paid time off
• Maternity leave support
• Referral program rewards
• Upskilling, internal workshops, and participation in professional conferences and corporate events

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