[8XS] QA Automation Engineer

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. 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.