Senior Automation QA Engineer

About the Position

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Europe. Our client is a leading multinational company in the building materials industry.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring quality across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems by designing robust automated tests, validating complex business flows, and working closely with developers throughout the software delivery lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, taking ownership of quality within their delivery area, and contributing to the evolution of modern quality engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across APIs, integrations, and asynchronous messaging systems.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and product owners to define effective testing strategies and ensure quality is built into solutions from the outset.
• Design comprehensive test coverage for functional, integration, regression, and non-functional scenarios.
• Validate API contracts, message transformations, payload mappings, and end-to-end business processes across multiple systems.
• Investigate defects using logs, observability platforms, and distributed tracing to support root cause analysis.
• Identify quality risks early and work with the team to implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of automation frameworks, reusable testing utilities, and engineering standards.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by ensuring automated tests are reliable, maintainable, and suitable for continuous delivery.
• Share knowledge with other QA engineers through collaboration, peer reviews, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Strong experience in API and integration testing.
• Understanding of building and maintaining automated test suites.
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven systems.
• In-depth understanding of quality engineering principles and modern testing practices.
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Be comfortable working in Agile delivery environments.
• A strong quality engineering mindset.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.

Required Technologies

• Java
• REST APIs
• API automation
• JSON/XML
• Schema and contract validation
• Event-driven architectures
• Kafka, Azure Service Bus, MuleSoft or similar messaging technologies
• Cucumber / BDD
• JUnit
• Maven or Gradle
• Git
• CI/CD pipelines
• Observability and log analysis
• Distributed systems
• Cloud-based applications

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with contract testing.
• Understanding of reviewing technical designs from a quality perspective.
• Experience mentoring or coaching other QA engineers.
• Knowledge of performance or resilience testing.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.

We Offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
• Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.
• Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
• Generous time off, including vacation, national holidays, sick leaves, and family days.
• Personalized learning programs tailored to your interests and skill development.
• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.
• Regular corporate online activities.
• Awesome team and a friendly, supportive community!

About the Company

Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients - from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients' teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results. We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.

Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow - and living it.

Join us!