QA Automation Engineer (API, Kafka, CI/CD)

About the role

Software Mind is a software engineering partner building and scaling digital products for clients in the US and Europe, with LATAM teams working directly with client engineering teams. It is looking for a QA Automation Engineer to write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests, and to run performance and load tests. The team is based in Eastern Europe and Azerbaijan, so an early start is required.

Key responsibilities

• Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests
• Test Kafka flows: duplicate events, retries, ordering and ensuring events are processed once
• Check that a failing plugin does not 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

Required profile

• 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
• English B2+ (daily work with a European team)
• Comfortable starting the 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 and Go test automation
• Gaming, iGaming or payments background

The engagement is 6 months, likely to extend, with a start in early December.