Senior Backend QA Automation - Node.js & Kafka Remote

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

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.