Senior Automation QA Engineer

About the Position

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team in Brazil. 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.

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering the experience of tomorrow. The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is responsible for leading our efforts in combining sound development practices, leveraging proven testing techniques and technologies, testing and ensuring the accuracy of key data platforms, and collaborating to deliver solutions to fill gaps in our mission to deliver high-quality products with continuously improving efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Conduct complex analysis on the company’s front and backend systems
• Monitor product quality by designing and deploying automated testing at scale
• Develop and execute automated test cases for software applications to ensure the reliability of service pipelines
• Perform integration testing between multiple independent systems and interfaces (flat files, APIs, Database) etc.
• Partner with engineering teams to review system requirements and technical design documents and ensure new features are developed using automation in mind
• Evaluate existing data test automation frameworks and scripts, and drive any necessary changes
• Recommend, augment, and implement usage of proven automation tools, technologies, and techniques to solve data testing specific problems
• Elevate the quality of our releases by helping maintain automated tests integrated into our CI/CD pipelines
• Distribute ownership of quality across the team and provide tools and support for smooth adoption
• Enable short and direct feedback loops on the quality of every code submission
• Staying up to date with process, tools, technologies, techniques, and solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience in a similar field
• A minimum of 4+ years of SDET experience (or development experience) using C#, Python, or Go programming languages
• Familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Working experience with Windows and Linux systems
• Working knowledge with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Computing Services
• Writing code to create automated test frameworks, and establishing, monitoring, and maintaining them
• Experience with performance testing (JMeter, Locust, Gatling, K6)
• Experience in identifying potential quality issues in data collection, storage, processing
• Experience with Relational Databases (i.e. SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Maria)
• Experience with the use of streaming platforms (i.e. Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)
• Experience using version control systems such as Git and a solid understanding of Git workflows
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery platforms (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Codefresh, Rundeck)
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis and SLA/Incident management
• Working experience with Data Pipeline parsing/debugging
• Knowledge of QA methodologies including functional, performance, regression, black-box, and white-box testing
• Avid Learner: Passion for continuous learning and able to effectively communicate technology-oriented concepts

We Offer

• Care: Your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and mental health programs, 5 undocumented sick-leave days per year
• Tailored education path: Boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Growth environment: Share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and local bank holidays
• Flexibility: 100% remote work mode
• Opportunities: We value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally, and fulfill your potential
• Global impact: Work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: Feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company, and regular team-building events

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.

As we expand into Latin America, every Ciklumer is helping to shape our story. Collaborate with seasoned experts and make a global impact backed by two decades of industry leadership.

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.