Go Backend QA Engineer - Remote & Flexible

Plata Card; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work

Healthcare coverage

Education budget

Wellness budget

20 days annual leave

Job summary

Plata Card is seeking a QA Engineer - Backend (Golang) to join the Core Banking Systems Team. You will test scalable backend services built with a microservices architecture, Kafka and PostgreSQL, ensuring security and compliance with banking regulations.

The role involves manual testing on-site, plus writing automated tests in Go and other languages, and integrating testing into CI/CD. You will collaborate with product teams across international contexts, develop testing tools, and support

Qualifications

• Must have proven experience in writing test documentation and plans.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Kotlin or Python.
• Experience with Git and SQL in backend environments.
• Proven ability to create and maintain automated tests across languages.
• Experience building and maintaining a test framework and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and create test scenarios and data.
• Develop and maintain test documentation and plans.
• Perform acceptance and regression testing (manual and automated).
• Participate in on-site testing and own testing processes.
• Write and maintain automated tests in Go, Java, Kotlin or Python.
• Support, develop and maintain the test project and tooling.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD and testing infra.
• Identify defects and report them in bug tracking systems.
• Communicate with product teams and participate in releases.

Skills

Test documentation

Go language

Java

Kotlin

Python

Git

SQL

Automated tests

Test framework

CI/CD

Testing infrastructure

Kafka

English communication

gRPC

Protobuf

Allure

Tools

Git

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Docker

CI/CD tools

gRPC

Protobuf

Allure

JUnit5

pytest

Job description

Plata Card is seeking a QA Engineer - Backend (Golang) to join the Core Banking Systems Team. You will test scalable backend services built with a microservices architecture, Kafka and PostgreSQL, ensuring security and compliance with banking regulations.

The role involves manual testing on-site, plus writing automated tests in Go and other languages, and integrating testing into CI/CD. You will collaborate with product teams across international contexts, develop testing tools, and support