Senior QA Automation Engineer

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our client’s team.

Role description

The Senior QA Automation Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software by driving the development and execution of robust automated testing strategies. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, and DevOps, to design, implement, and maintain scalable testing frameworks.

The Senior QA Automation Engineer advocates for Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) approaches while leveraging advanced testing tools and techniques to maximize automation coverage within CI/CD pipelines. With a focus on continuous improvement, this role combines technical expertise, analytical problem-solving, and proactive collaboration to enhance software quality and team efficiency.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and other QA Automation Engineers to contribute to both the testing of new product features, and the improvement of testing of existing/legacy features, using technologies and tools including Reqnroll/Specflow, Postman, Playwright, Swagger, Selenium

• Analyse business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimate user stories collaboratively with the team

• Advocating and continuing to maintain an automated Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach with all software solutions

• Write and execute robust test scripts, attaining a high percentage of test automation and regression within CI/CD pipelines

• Manual exploratory testing and maintenance of a clear manual test plan for any test scenarios that can't be automated

• Review logs and databases as part of the testing process, and automate this where possible

• Following industry best practices and ensure other members of the team do likewise

Required skills and Experience:

• Professional level (6+ years’ experience) as an Automation QA within a modern software development environment

• Experience with C# .Net

• Strong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies

• BDD experience with high focus on test automation vs manual testing

• Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

• Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests

• Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests

• Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Specflow/Reqnroll

• Understanding of SQL

• Experience with agile methodologies

• Fluent English (min. B2)

• Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies and techniques

• Good team collaboration and communication skills

• Attention to detail

Nice to have

• Previous experience in the payments industry or with PCI DSS compliance is advantageous

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerisation tools like Docker and localstack

• Experience with performance and non-functional testing

• Knowledge of testing highly available, scalable, and business-critical systems

Offer

• Location: Cracow (hybrid: 2 days/week from office)

• B2B contract (via SHIMI)

• Rate: up to 137 PLN/h nett + VAT

• Project start date: ASAP

• Long-term engagement