Senior Backend QA Automation Engineer (Node.js & Kafka) IRC303865

GlobalLogic; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exciting Projects

Collaborative Environment

Work-Life Balance

Professional Development

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

GlobalLogic, a leader in digital engineering, seeks an experienced QA Engineer for backend/platform testing in the United States (San Jose). The role emphasizes validating CI/CD, performance testing, and API validation while collaborating with developers to define acceptance criteria.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years of QA experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, Docker, and cloud deployments, and the ability to analyze latency and throughput metrics across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of QA/testing experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Hands‑on experience with performance and load testing tools (k6, Artillery, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust).
• Ability to analyze performance metrics — P50/P95/P99 latencies, throughput, error rates, CPU/memory utilization.
• Strong experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST clients, curl, supertest).
• Experience testing event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues).
• Familiarity with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Validate CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) — ensure builds, tests, and deployments function correctly.
• Perform regression testing for Node.js runtime upgrades (e.g., Node 18 → Node 24 migrations).
• Collaborate with developers to define acceptance criteria and testability requirements.
• Monitor and validate application performance using Datadog APM (dd-trace).
• Test Redis cluster interactions, DynamoDB operations, and Kafka consumer/producer flows.
• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution.

Skills

Kafka

Docker

DynamoDB

GitLab CI

Node.js

Redis

Education

Bachelors or Masters in CS/EE/Math

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Function

IT, Telecom & Internet

Experience

10-15 years

Location

United States - San Jose CA

Skills

Apache Kafka, Docker, DynamoDB`, Gitlab CI/CD, Node.js (NodeJS), Redis

• 5–10 years of QA/testing experience in backend or platform engineering
• Hands‑on experience with performance and load testing tools (k6, Artillery, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust)
• Ability to analyze performance metrics — P50/P95/P99 latencies, throughput, error rates, CPU/memory utilization
• Strong experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST clients, curl, supertest)
• Experience testing event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues)
• Familiarity with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes-based deployments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)

Requirements

• Validate CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) — ensure builds, tests, and deployments function correctly
• Perform regression testing for Node.js runtime upgrades (e.g., Node 18 → Node 24 migrations)
• Collaborate with developers to define acceptance criteria and testability requirements
• Monitor and validate application performance using Datadog APM (dd-trace)
• Test Redis cluster interactions, DynamoDB operations, and Kafka consumer/producer flows
• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Job responsibilities

GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed in Denver, CO to be $115,000 to $120,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good-faith estimate, and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors in consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.

What we offer

Exciting Projects:Come take your place at the frontier of digital transformation! With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to work on market-defining products using the latest technologies.

Collaborative Environment: You can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment — or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!

Work-Life Balance:GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules and opportunities to work from home.

Professional Development:We provide continuing education classes, professional certification and training (technical, soft skills, language, and communication skills) to help you realize your professional goals. Being part of a global organization, there are additional learning opportunities through international knowledge exchanges.

Excellent Benefits:We provide our employees with competitive salaries, health and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, a matched contribution 401K plan, flexible spending accounts, and PTO and holidays

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.