[8XS] QA Automation Engineer

Software Mind is a software engineering partner that builds and scales digital products for companies in the US and Europe. Our LATAM teams work directly with client engineering teams on complex, high-impact projects. - 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 - 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. 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.