Design, develop, and maintain Robot Framework test automation suites, investigate failures, improve testing processes, and coordinate quality activities across complex international projects.
[8XS] QA Automation Engineer
📜 Description
- Write and maintain automated API, contract, and integration tests.
- Test Kafka flows, including duplicate events, retries, ordering, and exactly-once processing.
- Verify that failing plugins do not affect the platform or other tenants.
- Run performance and load tests and help identify bottlenecks.
- Add test suites to CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to the test strategy with the client's QA lead.
🛠️ Requirements
- 3–4+ years in QA, with at least 2 years automating tests for backend services and APIs
- Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
- Solid API test automation in Java, Python, Go or TypeScript
- Experience running tests in CI/CD pipelines
- English B2+ (you’ll work daily with a European team)
- Comfortable starting your day early to overlap with the team
Full job description
Company Description
Software Mind is a software engineering partner that builds and scales digital products for companies in the US and Europe. Our LATAM teams work directly with client engineering teams on complex, high-impact projects.
Job Description
- Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests
- Test Kafka flows: duplicate events, retries, ordering and making sure events are processed once
- Check that a failing plugin doesn’t affect the rest of the platform or other tenants
- Run performance and load tests and help track down bottlenecks
- Add test suites to CI/CD pipelines
- Contribute to the test strategy together with the client’s QA lead
Qualifications
- 3–4+ years in QA, with at least 2 years automating tests for backend services and APIs
- Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
- Solid API test automation in Java, Python, Go or TypeScript
- Experience running tests in CI/CD pipelines
- English B2+ (you’ll work daily with a European team)
- Comfortable starting your day early to overlap with the team
Nice to have: performance testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter; resilience or fault-injection testing; contract testing (e.g. Pact); multi-tenant systems; Go test automation; gaming, iGaming or payments background.
Additional Information
6-month engagement, likely to extend. Start in early December. The team is based in Eastern Europe and Azerbaijan, so an early start is needed.
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