Expert Automation QA Engineer

About the Position

Ciklum is looking for an Expert Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in Bulgaria.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts, and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

Responsibilities

• Use your deep technical skills to work with your team on defining, executing, and maintaining efficient, highly automated test setups over the whole testing pyramid, from functional testing, integration, and contract testing to performance and load testing.
• Be responsible for defining and executing an appropriate testing strategy that is aligned on domain level as well as ensuring the availability of suitable test data.
• Help to realize efficient solutions for assuring quality where automation comes up against its limitations.
• Coach and support your colleagues with deep knowledge to improve expertise in ensuring the quality of software products over the whole cycle of designing, building, testing, and deploying applications.
• Coach and guide more junior Quality Engineers and help them to grow and develop their expertise.
• Help to continuously advance tooling, processes, and ways of working, always having our customers in mind, and thus embed all-team quality ownership.
• Work with Product Owners to ensure testable feature specifications and champion approaches like test-driven development or behaviour-driven development.
• Tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing, and deploying software and contribute to increasing automation.
• Be able to verbalize your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the domain’s Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate, and test new approaches, processes, and tools and help teams to use them effectively.
• Demonstrate active contribution to Communities of Practice, including collaboration in shared initiatives. For this you are well-connected across the domain and within the broader our community.
• Love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership, and self-organisation at team and personal level. You regularly coach, guide, and develop more junior colleagues. You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with the latest developments in your focus areas.

Requirements

• Deep and proven practical knowledge of and expertise in quality assurance practices, tools, and methods in an agile context and at scale.
• Practical experience with a range of cloud technologies and services (preferably AWS).
• Experience working with Atlassian tool set (JIRA, Confluence, and integrations).
• Experience in end-to-end application testing (restful services, front applications, automation).
• Strong understanding of Automation test strategy, Automation test limitations.
• Should have progressing skills in Testing Lifecycle, Testing Expertise, Testing Techniques, Test and Quality Management.
• A good team player with a great attitude and a passion for technology.
• Programming Language: TypeScript (and JavaScript).
• Test Automation Framework: Playwright.
• Assertion Libraries: Built-in Playwright assertions.
• Package Manager: npm.
• Version Control: Git.
• Linting: ESLint.
• Test Runner: Playwright Test Runner.
• Framework Design: PageObject pattern.
• API Testing Framework: Playwright API testing.
• Mocking & Stubbing: Playwright request interception.
• Code Security: SonarQube.
• Experience with Performance Testing in Gatling Cloud.
• Strong technical prowess in all quality assurance areas including automation, functional, contract, integration, performance, and load testing.
• Deep practical knowledge of software engineering practices like BDD and TDD.
• Proven ability to define and execute quality strategies at scale.
• Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI.
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services.
• Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset.
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration, and great teams.
• Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills.
• Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering (e.g., like described in the ACM Code of Ethics).
• Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner, transparent.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.

We Offer

• Regular salary reviews based on performance.
• Corporate events: webinars, offline parties, and meetups.
• Internal Mobility Program.
• Tailored education path (including full access to Udemy, certifications, etc.).
• 25 paid days off: 20 business days of vacation per calendar year + 5 undocumented sick leave days.
• Additional health insurance.
• 100% company-covered Multisport card, with discounts available for family members.

About the Company

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

Since expanding to Bulgaria in 2022, we’ve been building a fast-growing team that thrives on learning, collaboration, and innovation. Join us on this exciting journey and help shape the future of our delivery center.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.