Senior Backend Test Automation Engineer (Python)

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a Senior Backend Test Automation Engineer to strengthen quality, automation, and validation for a containerized Python-based edge-to-cloud platform on Linux devices.

You will design automation strategies, build test suites from unit to end-to-end, and integrate them into CI/CD, addressing intermittent connectivity, retries, and observability.

Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, REST APIs, and security testing is essential to ensure data integrity and resilient deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in QA/software test engineering with a strong test automation focus.
• Proficiency in automated testing with Python (or equivalent) — fixtures, mocking, parametrized tests, integration harnesses, test isolation
• Background in testing containerized apps and Linux services — process lifecycle, config, logs, networking, resource constraints
• Experience testing REST APIs and distributed device-to-cloud systems — auth, retries, timeouts, failure recovery
• Expertise in validating file-processing/sync/upload/gateway workflows where integrity and resumability are critical
• Strong understanding of idempotency, replayability, ordering, eventual consistency, and exactly-once semantics
• Competency in testing OAuth2/JWT auth — token expiration, refresh, revocation, secure credential handling
• Skills in CI/CD and automated quality gates (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Knowledge of test coverage practices and enforcing meaningful thresholds
• Familiarity with Docker, as well as cloud services, device management, message brokers, object storage, or Kubernetes
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or similar)
• Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency for clear collaboration and documentation
• Nice to have Healthcare tech or regulated-industry experience (HIPAA or similar)
• Qualifications in testing edge computing, IoT, gateway, offline-first, or fleet-management platforms
• Familiarity with pytest, Docker Compose, Linux networking, TLS, AWS, Kafka, OAuth2, REST, device provisioning
• Security testing background — threat modeling, pen-test coordination, secrets management, TPM, secure boot, encrypted storage
• Experience validating monitoring, alerting, automated remediation, updates, rollback, and disaster recovery
• Capability to perform hardware-in-the-loop testing, power-loss/network emulation, bandwidth shaping, physical device labs
• Showcase of testing DICOM, medical imaging metadata, or clinical data-transfer workflows
• Experience with DABs or comparable multi-environment deployment automation, as well as Spec-Driven Development

Responsibilities

• Design an automation strategy that covers the full device-to-cloud lifecycle across critical workflows
• Build automated test suites for unit, integration, system, end-to-end, resilience, security, and upgrade scenarios
• Validate containerized Python applications on Linux edge devices, including capture, processing, packaging, encryption, and upload flows
• Create synthetic datasets and fixtures to exercise malformed, partial, duplicated, out-of-order, and oversized file cases
• Verify data integrity controls, including metadata, checksums, encryption handling, and secure transfer behavior
• Automate authentication and provisioning scenarios, including identity registration, OAuth token flows, and failure conditions
• Test behavior under real-world constraints such as intermittent connectivity, timeouts, retries, resume, backoff, and replay
• Validate idempotency and effectively-once processing expectations across uploads and processing pipelines
• Assess observability via audit logging, structured logs, health checks, metrics, and alerting signals
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD with coverage reporting, quality gates, and promotion checks
• Define testability requirements with engineers such as dependency injection, mockable interfaces, and deterministic boundaries

Skills

Python testing

CI/CD

REST API testing

Linux services testing

Test automation

OAuth2/JWT testing

Docker/Kubernetes

AI coding tools

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Docker Compose

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Backend Test Automation Engineer to strengthen quality, automation, and validation for a containerized edge-to-cloud platform running Python services on Linux devices. You will build reliable automated coverage for security-sensitive, failure-prone, and intermittently connected environments.

Responsibilities

• Design an automation strategy that covers the full device-to-cloud lifecycle across critical workflows
• Build automated test suites for unit, integration, system, end-to-end, resilience, security, and upgrade scenarios
• Validate containerized Python applications on Linux edge devices, including capture, processing, packaging, encryption, and upload flows
• Create synthetic datasets and fixtures to exercise malformed, partial, duplicated, out-of-order, and oversized file cases
• Verify data integrity controls, including metadata, checksums, encryption handling, and secure transfer behavior
• Automate authentication and provisioning scenarios, including identity registration, OAuth token flows, and failure conditions
• Test behavior under real-world constraints such as intermittent connectivity, timeouts, retries, resume, backoff, and replay
• Validate idempotency and effectively-once processing expectations across uploads and processing pipelines
• Assess observability via audit logging, structured logs, health checks, metrics, and alerting signals
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD with coverage reporting, quality gates, and promotion checks
• Define testability requirements with engineers such as dependency injection, mockable interfaces, and deterministic boundaries

Requirements

• 3+ years in QA/software test engineering with a strong test automation focus
• Proficiency in automated testing with Python (or equivalent) — fixtures, mocking, parametrized tests, integration harnesses, test isolation
• Background in testing containerized apps and Linux services — process lifecycle, config, logs, networking, resource constraints
• Experience testing REST APIs and distributed device-to-cloud systems — auth, retries, timeouts, failure recovery
• Expertise in validating file-processing/sync/upload/gateway workflows where integrity and resumability are critical
• Strong understanding of idempotency, replayability, ordering, eventual consistency, and exactly-once semantics
• Competency in testing OAuth2/JWT auth — token expiration, refresh, revocation, secure credential handling
• Skills in CI/CD and automated quality gates (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Knowledge of test coverage practices and enforcing meaningful thresholds
• Familiarity with Docker, as well as cloud services, device management, message brokers, object storage, or Kubernetes
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or similar)
• Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency for clear collaboration and documentation
• Nice to have Healthcare tech or regulated-industry experience (HIPAA or similar)
• Qualifications in testing edge computing, IoT, gateway, offline-first, or fleet-management platforms
• Familiarity with pytest, Docker Compose, Linux networking, TLS, AWS, Kafka, OAuth2, REST, device provisioning
• Security testing background — threat modeling, pen-test coordination, secrets management, TPM, secure boot, encrypted storage
• Experience validating monitoring, alerting, automated remediation, updates, rollback, and disaster recovery
• Capability to perform hardware-in-the-loop testing, power-loss/network emulation, bandwidth shaping, physical device labs
• Showcase of testing DICOM, medical imaging metadata, or clinical data-transfer workflows
• Experience with DABs or comparable multi-environment deployment automation, as well as Spec-Driven Development