We are currently looking for a proactive Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a top-performing product - a true leader in its category, supported by a strong and friendly team with deep industry expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Quality Strategy Development: establish quality strategies including the test pyramid, shift-left testing, readiness criteria, and metrics (flakiness, MTTR, defect leakage).
- Test Framework Architecture and Development: Design and develop test frameworks from scratch (e2e/UI, API, contract, integration), including setting standards and best practices.
- Web Automation: Utilize Playwright/Cypress/WebdriverIO for web automation, including parallelization, test stabilization, and visual regression testing.
- API Testing: Perform API testing using REST/GraphQL/WebSocket; create contract tests (Pact) and develop negative/fuzzing scenarios.
- Test Data Management: Generate/anonymize test data, manage fixtures, implement snapshot tests, ensure idempotency, and seed databases.
- Mocks/Stubs: Use tools like MSW/Nock/WireMock to isolate external dependencies and emulate queues/buses.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, including PR runs, nightly/regression tests, flaky detectors, quarantine mechanisms, artifact management, and maintaining stable quality gates.
- Observability: Enhance observability with extended logs, screenshots/videos, tracing, and integrations with Allure/ReportPortal/Sentry.
- Performance and Reliability: Conduct performance testing using k6, perform basic security checks (OWASP ZAP/DAST), and execute accessibility tests (axe-core).
- Team Mentorship and Code Review: Mentor the team, conduct test code reviews, and train product teams on testability and quality.
- Collaboration with Developers: Work closely with developers to reduce technical debt, improve testability, and enhance developer experience (DX).
Requirements:
- Experience: 3+ years in QA Automation, with at least 3+ years working with TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Framework Expertise: Deep experience with Playwright and/or Cypress; understanding of architectural differences and expectation models.
- Node.js Ecosystem: Strong knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem, including npm/yarn/pnpm, Jest/Vitest/Mocha, ESLint/Prettier, and TSConfig.
- Test Architecture Patterns: Familiarity with test architecture patterns such as Page Object, Screenplay, DRY/SRP, isolation, and state manageability.
- API Testing: Experience with REST/GraphQL API testing; creating contract tests (Pact), working with schemas (OpenAPI/Swagger), and client generation.
- Database and Caching: Basic SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL/MySQL), experience with Redis; handling migrations and local environments.
- Mocks/Stubs and Network Interceptors: Proficiency with MSW, Nock; experience with testing queues (Kafka) is a plus.
- CI/CD: Experience with GitLab CI, artifact management, sharding/parallelism, retries, and pipeline containerization.
- Cloud and Infrastructure: Proficiency with Docker; experience with Kubernetes (k8s) is a plus; familiarity with basic AWS services for test environments.
- Flake Management: Skills in ensuring determinism, managing timeouts and waits, creating idempotent fixtures, and utilizing test telemetry.
- English - B1.
Nice to have:
- Visual Regression: Experience with Playwright snapshots.
- Load/Stress Testing: Proficiency with k6, result analysis, and setting SLO/SLA.
- Security Automation: Experience with ZAP, Semgrep, API fuzzing.
- Feature Flags and Experimentation: Experience implementing experimentation/feature flags in tests and testing telemetry.
Technology Stack (Primary):
- Language: TypeScript (preferred) and/or JavaScript.
- UI Testing: Playwright; Appium (nice to have).
- API Testing: Jest + axios.
- Performance Testing: k6.
- Reporting: Allure; handling artifacts (videos/screenshots/logs).
- Mocks: MSW, Nock, WireMock.
- DevOps: Docker, GitLab CI, AWS (nice to have).
- Quality Tools: ESLint, Prettier, Husky, commitlint/Conventional Commits.
What We Offer:
- Employment according to the Labor Code of the Republic of Belarus (the company is the resident of the PVT).
- Extended health insurance policy from the first month of work.
- Additional payments for sick leaves and days off.
- Sport Days, Teambuilding Events and Parties.
- Breakfast and healthy snacks in the office.
- Gifts and bonuses for employees on significant dates (birthday, wedding, birth of children).
- Relaxation room in the office.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a creative and dynamic environment.
- Flexible working hours and remote/office work options.
- Career growth and professional development opportunities.
- A fun and inclusive company culture that celebrates diversity and creativity.
* The position has been posted in anticipation of its official opening.
* Вакансия открыта в связи с перспективой потребности в работнике.
Join us and let’s create great product together!