Software Mind

Polish software development outsourcing provider

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Test Automation EngineeringPosted on Nov 9

Full-timeKraków, PolandNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in quality assurance and at least 3 years automating tests for backend and distributed systems.
Experience testing event-driven systems such as Kafka.
Experience with performance and load testing using k6, Gatling, or JMeter.
Experience with resilience or chaos testing and fault injection.
Experience building automation frameworks from scratch, including API and contract testing.
Experience integrating tests into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and implementing quality gates.
Fluency in English at B2 level or higher.

Responsibilities

Own the test strategy across development, staging, pre-production, and production environments.
Build the automation framework for API, contract, and integration tests.
Run resilience testing using 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 test suites into CI/CD.
Partner with the client's QA lead and coach developers on testability.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with multi-tenant testing and tenant isolation.
Experience with Go test automation.
Experience with statistical testing of probability-based features.
Background in gaming, iGaming, or payments.

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.

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

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