Senior Engineer, Software Test Engineering

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our QA team and lead our client's testing initiatives. In this role, you will work closely with product teams to ensure that our client's software products meet the highest quality standards. The position requires a strong understanding of software testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and tools. You will play a key role in driving the adoption of best practices in testing and quality assurance, ensuring that our client’s systems deliver top performance and reliability. Your responsibilities will include creating test plans, developing testing strategies, implementing test automation, researching new tools, and applying QA best practices. Project Duration: We are looking for new team members to start in November/December or January. collaborate with Technical Product Owners, Software Architects to plan testing initiatives by analysis of requirements, technical specifications and design of test plan and test cases implement test automation strategies for microservice architecture to increase test coverage and reduce manual testing efforts design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard tools and frameworks to ensure efficient and repeatable testing processes perform manual testing for complex scenarios where automation is not feasible, ensuring thorough coverage of all system functionalities conduct different types of tests including automated end to end, API, contract and performance tests develop and maintain test documentation like test plans, test cases, test scripts integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with DevOps teams to ensure smooth and reliable deployment processes provide guidance and mentorship to QA engineers, promoting best practices in testing and quality assurance continuously evaluate and improve testing tools to enhance product quality stay updated on emerging trends, best practices, and tools in software testing and quality assurance, and continuously improve the testing processes monitor and report on key quality metrics, providing insights and recommendations for improvement support timely and high quality delivery of features for product releases in the context of a larger product development organization You can be the perfect match for us, if you have:  ~ degree and successful industry experience in either Computer Science or Computer Engineering ~5+ years of relevant work experience in test automation or similar position ~ very good experience with manual and automated testing during full development life cycle with a focus on an API testing ~ deep experience with manual and automated testing - end to end testing, API testing, contract testing, performance testing, exploratory testing and UI testing ~ hands on experience with Python ~ good understanding of cloud technologies ~ knowledge of SQL ~ experience with building testing plans and strategies, writing test cases, triaging bugs ~ ability to maintain and document testing artifacts and reports ~ experience with CI/CD testing integration ~ ability to share their testing expertise by conducting internal training sessions, advice on best practices or new tools, identify areas for improvement etc. ~ adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and processes It can be love at first sight if you also have: ~ experience in AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Quodo or Katalon Studio ambitious, creative, talented & highly experienced team contributing to projects for clients all over the world flexible working hours and a possibility to work remotely We value your trust in providing us your data, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. Below you will find the necessary information about the data we collect and process when you send us your CV. The controller of your personal data is Miquido Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością sp. k. with its seat in Krakow, Zabłocie 43a, 30-701 Kraków, Poland (“Miquido”, “We”, “Our” or “Us”).