About this role
Company Description
Software Mind is a software engineering partner that builds and scales digital products for companies in the US and Europe. Our LATAM teams work directly with client engineering teams on complex, high-impact projects.
Job Description
- Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests
- Test Kafka flows: duplicate events, retries, ordering and making sure events are processed once
- Check that a failing plugin doesn’t affect the rest of the platform or other tenants
- Run performance and load tests and help track down bottlenecks
- Add test suites to CI/CD pipelines
- Contribute to the test strategy together with the client’s QA lead
Qualifications
- 3–4+ years in QA, with at least 2 years automating tests for backend services and APIs
- Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
- Solid API test automation in Java, Python, Go or TypeScript
- Experience running tests in CI/CD pipelines
- English B2+ (you’ll work daily with a European team)
- Comfortable starting your day early to overlap with the team
- Nice to have: performance testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter; resilience or fault-injection testing; contract testing (e.g. Pact); multi-tenant systems; Go test automation; gaming, iGaming or payments background.
Additional Information
6-month engagement, likely to extend. Start in early December. The team is based in Eastern Europe and Azerbaijan, so an early start is needed.