Senior QA Automation Engineer ID72456

About the role

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as a core part of daily quality engineering work.

What you will do

Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications;

Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging;

Execute performance and load testing;

Validate resiliency and failure scenarios;

Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies;

Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation;

Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks;

Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions;

Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging validation, and failure mode analysis;

Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems.

Must haves

4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing;

Experience designing automated test suites for REST APIs in distributed or microservices environments;

Hands-on experience with performance and load testing;

Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python;

Working knowledge of AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS);

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions);

Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent);

Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts;

Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects;

Experience validating asynchronous systems;

Strong scripting skills;

Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities;

Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints;

Upper-intermediate English level.

Nice to haves

Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools;

Postman/Newman experience;

Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools;

Cognito authentication testing experience;

Delivery and payment integration testing experience;

Experience with DoorDash, Uber Eats, or similar marketplace APIs;

Chaos engineering and fault injection (AWS FIS or similar);

Observability tooling experience (Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch);

Multi-region AWS testing and failover/latency validation;

Background in QSR, retail, or e-commerce domains;

AWS Certified Developer – Associate or higher.

Perks and benefits

Professional growth: Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.

Competitive compensation: We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities.

A selection of exciting projects: Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands.

Flextime: Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office, whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Remote