Senior QA Automation Engineer

Scrums.com; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrums.com is seeking a senior QA engineer focused on automated testing for a next-generation event-driven platform. You will own quality across distributed systems, API layers, microservices, and Kafka pipelines, influencing testing architecture from day one.

You will design and maintain API/microservice test suites, validate message flows, and ensure data integrity in MongoDB. You will integrate tests into CI/CD to advance continuous delivery and automation across multi-service workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in test automation or SDET roles.
• Proven background automating tests for APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience testing Kafka-based architectures.
• Familiarity with MongoDB or comparable NoSQL data stores.
• Strong integration and end-to-end workflow automation.
• Solid Python skills for building and maintaining automation.
• Comfort in an engineering-oriented QA culture over manual testing.
• Nice to have: performance and reliability testing beyond functional regression.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test suites covering APIs and microservices.
• Build and run tests for Kafka-based and other event-driven workflows, validating message flow, ordering, and failure handling.
• Verify data integrity in MongoDB through schema-level and query-level checks.
• Develop integration and end-to-end automation spanning multi-service workflows.
• Run regression, performance, and reliability testing to surface issues before release.
• Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery.
• Write test automation primarily in Python, contributing reusable frameworks and tooling.

Skills

API testing

Microservices testing

Kafka

Python

MongoDB

Test automation

CI/CD

Job description

Role overview

A senior, engineering-first quality role focused on shaping automated testing for a next-generation event-driven platform. The position involves owning quality across complex distributed systems, including API layers, microservices, and Kafka-based event pipelines, with real influence over how testing is architected rather than retrofitted at the end of the cycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test suites covering APIs and microservices
• Build and run tests for Kafka-based and other event-driven workflows, validating message flow, ordering, and failure handling
• Verify data integrity in MongoDB through schema-level and query-level checks
• Develop integration and end-to-end automation spanning multi-service workflows
• Run regression, performance, and reliability testing to surface issues before release
• Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
• Write test automation primarily in Python, contributing reusable frameworks and tooling

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in test automation or SDET roles
• Proven background automating tests for APIs and microservices
• Hands-on experience testing Kafka or similar event-driven, message-based architectures
• Familiarity with MongoDB or comparable NoSQL data stores
• Strong background in integration and end-to-end workflow automation
• Solid Python skills for building and maintaining automation, not just consuming scripts
• Comfort working in an engineering-oriented QA culture rather than a manual-testing environment

Nice to have

• Experience with performance and reliability testing beyond functional regression
• Background working on data-intensive or fast-moving distributed products