QA Engineer (Performance Tester)

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We are STX Next, a global IT consulting company specializing in customer-focused software services. Join a group of 500 professionals dedicated to helping customers build outstanding products. Leveraging the latest advancements in the field, and a passion for innovation, we're shaping the future of technology one project at a time.

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Job description

At STX Next, we are continuously expanding our Quality Assurance capabilities within a vibrant and innovative environment. Our QA Engineers play a vital role in ensuring the excellence of our software products, collaborating closely with our development teams. While our team often works remotely, we actively participate in various initiatives and industry events related to QA, software testing, and emerging technologies. Our QA team members are not just contributors but also thought leaders, speakers, and organizers in the community. We place high value on opportunities to meet in person, collaborate as a team, and foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

We approach quality assurance holistically, developing expertise across various testing methodologies and tools, including automated, performance, and API testing. Our team stays ahead of industry trends, continuously refining our processes and adopting new technologies to enhance our efficiency and the quality of our work. By leveraging AI and other innovative solutions, we strive to optimize our testing efforts and deliver superior results in all our projects.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintanance of the Performance Testing framework;
• Familiarity with best practices in Performance Testing;
• Analyzing the results and metrics of conducted tests;
• Execution of Performance Tests according to the established test schedule to identify issues and bottlenecks which may affect the performance;
• Ensuring that performance requirements are met, also in the reliability area;
• Working closely with developers to identify and solve performance issues and ensure the product’s stability;
• Working with relevant stakeholders to identify and implement needed improvements and to optimize system performance;
• Actively participating in scheduled meetings, particularly team meetings within the project; 
• Reproduction of performance issues from the customers side and cooperating with stakeholders to fix them.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in performance and observability engineering or a related field experience with performance testing tools, such as K6 (preferred), Gatling, LoadRunner, Blazemeter and Jmeter;
• Experience with monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic or AppDynamics;
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability and capacity planning;
• Experience with SaaS in a B2B heavily regulated environment (telco, banking, pharma) using Kubernetes, Docker;
• Basic knowledge and experience with Kubernetes;
• Experience with building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines with the tools like GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins;
• Basic experience in programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Bash; 
• Basic SQL knowledge;
• Experience with test automation solutions like Playwright, Cypress is a plus;
• Analytical thinking;
• Good knowledge of English (min. B2);
• Great communication skills;
• Ability to identify flaws in the testing process, toolset, infrastructure and to propose and drive necessary improvements; 
• Flexible and able to cope with an ever-changing, dynamic and exciting environment.

Benefits

• Work-life balance- We are open to discussing individual needs. Set up working hours and limited remote work scheduled with your team and manager, in a way that works for both sides.
• Reimbursed private medical care (Medicover) and Multisport- We care about the health and well-being of our colleagues. Choose a sports card and dedicated medical care for yourself and your relatives.
• Leader’s support- Work with true enthusiasts and professionals who will support you along the way. You can count on leaders and experts who are willing to share their knowledge so that you too can join their ranks someday.
• Technology focus- Python and JavaScript are not our only strengths, we are also very good at React Native, IoT, Machine Learning, .Net, DevOps and Blockchain.
• Growth review- Junior, Regular or Senior? Every year we have a chance to discuss acquired skills and prepare a development plan for upcoming months.
• Events- Attend exciting internal webinars, celebrate special days with us, and join us at conferences and meetups as a listener or speaker!
• Workation- Team trips where you have a chance as a team not only to work together, but also integrate f2f.