Senior QA Automation Engineer: Remote, Backend, Kafka & Go

Software Mind; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote cooperation

International projects

Travel opportunities

Non-corporate atmosphere

Language classes

Knowledge sharing initiatives

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a client project building a LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka, and Google Cloud.

You will own the test strategy across environments, build an automation framework for API/contract tests, and run resilience and performance testing to ensure stability in production. Remote-friendly, international projects and a collaborative Scrum team await.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA and 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems.
• Experience testing event-driven architectures such as Kafka.
• Performance and load testing with tools like K6, Gatling or JMeter.
• Resilience/chaos testing and fault injection and building automation frameworks from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy across dev, staging, pre-prod and production.
• Build the automation framework for API, contract and integration tests.
• Run resilience testing with fault injection and failure scenarios.
• Test duplicate events, idempotency, ordering and retries on Kafka.
• Verify plugin failure containment and tenant isolation.
• Run performance, load and stress tests and analyze bottlenecks.
• Define quality gates and integrate suites into CI/CD.
• Partner with the client’s QA lead and coach developers on testability.

Skills

QA automation

Backend testing

Distributed systems

Kafka testing

Tools

K6

Gatling

JMeter

Go testing

Job description

Software Mind is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a client project building a LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka, and Google Cloud.

You will own the test strategy across environments, build an automation framework for API/contract tests, and run resilience and performance testing to ensure stability in production. Remote-friendly, international projects and a collaborative Scrum team await.