About the Position

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as a core part of daily quality engineering work.

Responsibilities

Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications;
Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging;
Execute performance and load testing;
Validate resiliency and failure scenarios;
Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies;
Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation;
Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks;
Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions;
Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging validation, and failure mode analysis;
Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems.

Requirements

4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing;
Experience designing automated test suites for REST APIs in distributed or microservices environments;
Hands-on experience with performance and load testing;
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python;
Working knowledge of AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS);
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions);
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent);
Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts;
Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects;
Experience validating asynchronous systems;
Strong scripting skills;
Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities;
Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints;
Upper-intermediate English level.

Nice to Have

Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools;
Postman/Newman experience;
Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools;
Cognito authentication testing experience;
Delivery and payment integration testing experience;
Experience with DoorDash, Uber Eats, or similar marketplace APIs;
Chaos engineering and fault injection (AWS FIS or similar);
Observability tooling experience (Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch);
Multi-region AWS testing and failover/latency validation;
Background in QSR, retail, or e-commerce domains;
AWS Certified Developer – Associate or higher.

We Offer

Professional growth: Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
Competitive compensation: We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities.
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Flextime: Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.

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