QA Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites for web applications.

• Create dependable and maintainable end-to-end automated testing solutions.

• Analyze requirements and acceptance criteria, translating them into effective test scenarios.

• Conduct API testing and validate integrations across various services and system components.

• Perform database validation and utilize SQL for preparing test data and troubleshooting.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and analyze any failed executions.

• Execute functional, regression, smoke, integration, and exploratory testing as needed.

• Investigate defects using application logs, monitoring tools, API responses, and database insights.

• Identify edge cases, potential risks, and unexpected system behaviors early in the development lifecycle.

• Report, document, reproduce, and track defects until resolution.

• Assist with release validation and post-deployment verification.

• Collaborate effectively with developers, product stakeholders, and other QA engineers to enhance overall product quality.

• Continuously contribute to the improvement of test coverage, automation practices, and QA processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance, with substantial hands-on experience in test automation.

• Strong background with at least one established UI automation framework such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.

• Hands-on programming/scripting experience using Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.

• Extensive experience with API testing, utilizing tools such as Postman and/or automated API testing solutions.

• Solid understanding of REST APIs, HTTP methods, status codes, request/response structures, and service integrations.

• Experience with SQL and relational databases.

• Practical experience in integrating or executing automated tests through CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, or comparable tools.

• Good understanding of software testing methodologies, test design techniques, and the software development lifecycle.

• Ability to independently investigate failed tests and differentiate between automation issues, environmental problems, and application defects.

• Familiarity with Git and modern development workflows.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Professional proficiency in English.

• Nice to have: Experience testing microservices-based or distributed systems.

• Nice to have: Experience with Docker or containerized test environments.

• Nice to have: Experience with application monitoring and log-analysis tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or similar.

• Nice to have: Experience with performance or load testing using JMeter or similar tools.

• Nice to have: Experience in mobile or cross-browser testing.

• Nice to have: Experience with cloud-based environments.

• Nice to have: Experience contributing to the design or improvement of an existing automation framework.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private health care.

• Paid sick leave.

• Main and additional equipment.

• Social events.

• Opportunity to apply your skills and acquire new ones.

• Possibility of B2B cooperation.