Software Test Automation Engineer

This is a remote position.

· Design, implement and maintain automated tests for web, API and backend systems; establish robust, scalable test frameworks.

· Define test automation architecture, tooling and strategy; support the transition from manual to automated testing.

· Embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, produce actionable quality metrics and automated reporting.

· Partner with developers and QA teams on regression coverage, shift-left testing and DevSecOps practices.

· Evaluate emerging tooling, including Generative AI-assisted test generation, and support performance testing.

Requirements

· Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured; Cucumber JVM or Behave; JUnit and TestNG.

· Java: strong OpenJDK 11/17/21 expertise, including Streams, Collections and Lambda expressions.

· Delivery and performance: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Apache JMeter and test data management.

· Data and application stack: Oracle and complex SQL; Angular/SCSS; Protocol Buffers, Jackson and Gson.

· Security and innovation: JWT/JJWT, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Generative AI test generation and Amazon Kiro.

· Testing fundamentals: QA methodologies, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis; knowledge of grant lifecycle processes (submission through amendments).

QUALIFICATIONS

Either EQF Level 7 university degree with at least 10 years of professional IT experience, or EQF Level 6 degree with at least 12 years of professional IT experience. Degrees in any field are accepted.