QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

📍 Hybrid – Gdańsk (3 days remote / 2 days office)

About Consid

Consid is an award-winning IT company founded in Sweden, with a strong presence across Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland, and Poland. We combine Scandinavian work culture with technical excellence, delivering modern, scalable digital solutions for international clients. At Consid, we believe in collaboration, ownership, and continuous growth. We build strong teams that create meaningful products — and we make sure our people grow along the way.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer to join a cross-functional product team working with complex digital services and large-scale system integrations. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both hands-on testing and helping teams mature their quality assurance practices. You will play a key role in strengthening the team's automation capabilities while also supporting manual testing when needed. The team is currently building up its automation competence, so we are looking for someone experienced who can guide, support, and help establish best practices within test automation. You will collaborate closely with developers, product teams, and manual testers in an Agile environment, contributing to both technical quality and team knowledge-sharing.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions for web applications and backend services.

• Perform manual testing when required as part of the overall QA process.

• Help define and improve test strategies, QA processes, and automation frameworks.

• Support the team in building stronger test automation capabilities and share best practices.

• Collaborate closely with developers, testers, and product stakeholders to ensure high product quality.

• Participate actively in refinement sessions and discussions around requirements and solution quality.

• Identify risks, edge cases, and quality improvements early in the development lifecycle.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.

• Promote a quality-focused mindset across the team.

• Take ownership of testing activities and help drive continuous improvement.

Must-Have Skills

• Several years of experience within QA and software testing.

• Experience with test automation for web applications and/or backend services.

• Strong understanding of manual testing practices.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with Git and pull request workflows.

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and ways of working.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Very good spoken and written English.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience testing microservices and distributed systems.

• Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.

• Experience with API testing.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.

• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.

• Knowledge of performance or integration testing.

• Experience mentoring teams or helping establish QA best practices.

• Experience using AI-assisted development or testing tools.

Personal Qualities

• Proactive and supportive mindset.

• Strong communicator and collaborator.

• Curious and eager to learn and teach others.

• Empathetic and patient.

• Comfortable asking questions and challenging assumptions constructively.

• Structured and detail-oriented.

• Team player who enjoys helping others succeed.

• Motivated by improving quality, processes, and team capabilities.

Recruitment Process

• Application Review – We review your CV and contact selected candidates.

• Interview with our Recruitment Team (English).

• Technical Interview – Technical deep dive with the customer.

• Final Decision and Offer.