Senior QA Automation Engineer

Instinctools; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote work

Career development

Meetups & conferences

Job summary

instinctools is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer for a fully remote role. You will focus on API tests and model-service integration testing, treating ML models as a black box.

Strong Python/Pytest, Linux, and Docker/Kubernetes skills are required, with experience in CI/CD and backend testing. You will work with a data science-focused team to automate QA across REST and gRPC services, leveraging Kafka/Kibana and SQL.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of total engineering experience, with 3+ years in automation, predominantly backend testing.
• Strong Python (Pytest) skills for writing test scripts, and solid Linux/Bash experience.
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes and basic CI/CD, with the ability to analyze backend service logs.
• Skilled in testing RESTful and gRPC APIs, with basic SQL proficiency.
• Experience with Kafka and Kibana, or a willingness to quickly learn them.
• Good understanding of client-server and/or microservice architecture.
• Familiarity with the basics of Machine Learning, and comfortable treating ML models as a black box for testing purposes.
• Active use of AI assistants in daily work.
• Strong team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all stages of the product lifecycle, from concept through deployment, testing backend services and analyzing results to identify issues.
• Write API automated tests (Pytest or similar) and maintain test plans, test cases, and documentation.
• Identify, document, and track bugs through a bug tracking system, and perform regression testing to ensure stability after changes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and TechOps to clarify requirements and improve quality management processes.

Skills

Python

Pytest

Linux

Bash

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

REST APIs

gRPC

SQL

Kafka

Kibana

ML basics

AI assistants

Team collaboration

Tools

Open Lens

Job description

*instinctools is a software development company that provides custom software solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our team works closely with clients to understand their specific needs and provide personalized solutions that meet their business requirements.

*instinctools is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer for one of our clients.

Locations: Poland, Europe, Kazakhstan, Georgia

Client: A global mobility and urban services platform that offers ride-hailing, intercity travel, delivery, and task assistance, operating in over 700 cities across 47 countries, and is one of the most downloaded mobility apps in the world.

The project: You’ll be working with a growing Data Science team that focuses not just on training models, but on ensuring those models deliver real, measurable value, improving the actual user experience. The team works with a wide variety of data, from numerical and textual to visual, and cares as much about how well something works as whether it works at all.

The team: This is a fully automated QA setup with no manual testers, and the team (data scientists, developers, and AQA engineer) is looking to add one more AQA to focus specifically on this area.

Ideally, you’re a strong Python/development background person who moved into testing. You’ll cover API tests and model-service integration testing, treating ML models as a black box (no deep math or ML theory required).

Technology stack: Python (Pytest), Linux, Bash, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, REST API and gRPC, Kafka or Kibana, SQL, AI Assistants

Project Duration: 6 months+

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Participate in all stages of the product lifecycle, from concept through deployment, testing backend services and analyzing results to identify issues
• Write API automated tests (Pytest or similar) and maintain test plans, test cases, and documentation
• Identify, document, and track bugs through a bug tracking system, and perform regression testing to ensure stability after changes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and TechOps to clarify requirements and improve quality management processes

Our expectations of the ideal candidate:

• 5+ years of total engineering experience, with 3+ years in automation, predominantly backend testing
• Strong Python (Pytest) skills for writing test scripts, and solid Linux/Bash experience
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes and basic CI/CD, with the ability to analyze backend service logs (e.g., Open Lens or similar tools)
• Skilled in testing RESTful and gRPC APIs, with basic SQL proficiency
• Experience with Kafka and Kibana, or a willingness to quickly learn themGood understanding of client-server and/or microservice architecture
• Familiarity with the basics of Machine Learning, and comfortable treating ML models as a black box for testing purposes
• Active use of AI assistants in daily work
• Strong team collaboration skills

We offer:

• Flexible working time.
• Social benefits and perks.
• Fully remote work.
• Professional and ambitious team.
• Transparent system of professional and career development.
• Learning opportunities, seminars and conferences and time for exploring new technologies.
• The opportunity to realize your potential outside the projects: we arrange meetups and conferences where our staff can perform, develop professional communities.

Join us and be part of a team that is changing the world through technology!

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Developers

*instinctools is a developer of IT solutions for Western Europe. We have over 350 projects in our portfolio. The spheres are different – from healthcare and medicine, training and education, to digital advertising, economics and IT. For the software implementation and maintenance across such a number of projects, competent developers are important.

We use a modern technology stack, the key of which are: