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QA Automation Engineer
Software Mind. Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in automated testing for backend services and APIs, with a strong focus on event-driven systems and CI/CD integration. Proficient in performance testing and contributing to test strategies in collaboration with QA leads.
Highest-signal resume keywords
API Test AutomationEvent-Driven Systems TestingCI/CD Pipeline IntegrationPerformance TestingJava, Python, Go, or TypeScript
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Hard Skills
Automated TestingAPI TestingPerformance TestingLoad TestingContract TestingFault-Injection TestingKafka TestingRabbitMQ TestingGo Test AutomationMulti-Tenant Systems
Soft Skills
CollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
CI/CD ToolsK6GatlingJMeter
Industry Keywords
GamingIGamingPayments
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesJavaJMeterKafkaPythonRabbitMQTypeScriptGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests
- Test Kafka flows, including duplicate events, retries, ordering and ensuring events are processed once
- Verify 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 with the client’s QA lead
Requirements
What you’ll need- 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+
- Comfortable starting your day early to overlap with the team
- Nice to have: performance testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter
- Nice to have: resilience or fault-injection testing
- Nice to have: contract testing (e.g. Pact)
- Nice to have: multi-tenant systems
- Nice to have: Go test automation
- Nice to have: gaming, iGaming or payments background
Benefits
Comp & perks- 6-month engagement, likely to extend