[MEX] Senior QA Automation Engineer
Software Mind Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
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About the role
You will own the test strategy for a new LiveOps plugin platform and build automation frameworks for API, contract, and integration tests. Additionally, you will conduct performance, load, and resilience testing while coaching developers on testability.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires over 5 years of QA experience, including at least 3 years of backend and distributed systems automation. Proficiency in testing event-driven systems like Kafka and experience with performance testing tools such as k6, Gatling, or JMeter are essential.
Benefits
Full description
Company Description
Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.
Job Description
Project – the aim you’ll have
Our client is a global video-game commerce company whose payments and monetization tools are used by leading game studios worldwide. Software Mind is joining the client's engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud, letting internal teams extend LiveOps through a strict plugin interface. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client's technical lead.
Role – how you’ll contribute
- 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
Qualifications
Expectations – the experience you need
- 5+ years in QA, 3+ years automating tests for backend and distributed systems
- Testing event-driven systems such as Kafka
- Performance and load testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter
- Resilience or chaos testing and fault injection
- Building automation frameworks from scratch, including API and contract testing
- CI/CD integration and quality gates
- Fluent English (B2+)
Additional skills – the edge you have
- Multi-tenant testing and tenant isolation
- Go test automation
- Statistical testing of probability-based features
- Gaming, iGaming or payments background
Additional Information
What we offer:
- Flexible and remote cooperation options
- International projects with leading global clients
- Travels related to international projects
- Non-corporate atmosphere
- Access* to language classes
- Access* to knowledge-sharing initiatives
- Access* to private healthcare and life insurance
- Access* to multisport card
*The availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation.
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