[MEX] Senior QA Automation Engineer

Software Mind; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote cooperation

International projects

Travel opportunities

Non-corporate atmosphere

Language classes

Knowledge sharing initiatives

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a client project building a LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka, and Google Cloud.

You will own the test strategy across environments, build an automation framework for API/contract tests, and run resilience and performance testing to ensure stability in production. Remote-friendly, international projects and a collaborative Scrum team await.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA and 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems.
• Experience testing event-driven architectures such as Kafka.
• Performance and load testing with tools like K6, Gatling or JMeter.
• Resilience/chaos testing and fault injection and building automation frameworks from scratch.

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

QA automation

Backend testing

Distributed systems

Kafka testing

Tools

K6

Gatling

JMeter

Go testing

Job description

Project – the aim you’ll have

Our client is a global video-game commerce company whose payments and monetization tools are used by leading game studios worldwide. Software Mind is joining the client's engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud, letting internal teams extend LiveOps through a strict plugin interface. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client's technical lead.

Role – how you’ll contribute

• 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

Expectations – the experience you need

• 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
• Fluent English (B2+)

Additional skills – the edge you have

• Multi-tenant testing and tenant isolation
• Go test automation
• Statistical testing of probability-based features
• Gaming, iGaming or payments background

What we offer:

• Flexible and remote cooperation options
• International projects with leading global clients
• Travels related to international projects
• Non-corporate atmosphere
• Access* to language classes
• Access* to knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Access* to private healthcare and life insurance
• Access* to multisport card

*The availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation.

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.

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