Software Mind

Polish software development outsourcing provider

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Test Automation EngineeringPosted on Nov 12

Full-timeSan José Province, San José, Costa RicaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 3–4 years of experience in quality assurance, including at least 2 years automating tests for backend services and application programming interfaces.
Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
Solid application programming interface test automation experience using Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
Experience running tests in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
Comfort starting the workday early to overlap with the team.

Responsibilities

Write and maintain automated application programming interface, contract, and integration tests.
Test Kafka flows, including 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 identify bottlenecks.
Add test suites to continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
Contribute to the test strategy together with the client’s quality assurance lead.

Desired Qualifications

Performance testing with k6, Gatling, or JMeter.
Resilience or fault-injection testing.
Contract testing, such as Pact.
Experience with multi-tenant systems.
Go test automation.
Gaming, iGaming, or payments background.

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.

About the Company

Software Mind

Polish software development outsourcing provider

Software Mind is a Polish software development company with multiple delivery centers in Poland and offices in the United States, Singapore, and Australia. It provides personalized software development services and outsourcing for clients worldwide, focusing on building software that is treated as a product and tailored to each client’s unique needs. The company works with startups, growing teams, or broader IT initiatives and applies its Agile toolbox—best practices it uses across projects—to help clients accelerate development and scale their software efforts. Unlike some firms that offer generic development, Software Mind emphasizes a bespoke, partner-like approach, combining strong technical skills with attention to the client’s business context to deliver customized software solutions.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding: $27.5M
Headquarters: Kraków, Poland
Founded: 1999

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Software Mind

See more jobs