SDET – Automation & Quality Frameworks (DY/SS)

• Level: Senior
• Type: B2B
• English Level: Upper-intermediate
• Location: Poland, Romania, Portugal
• Skills: Automation QA Manual QA

Responsibilities

• Define QA Architecture & Standards: Design and maintain frameworks to support integration, acceptance, and end-to-end testing.
• Coverage and Quality Metrics: Implement tools to measure test coverage, ensure traceability between requirements and tests, and enforce quality gates.
• Build & Maintain Automation Frameworks: Develop automation that integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and reporting tools such as Allure.
• Infrastructure-Aware Testing: Configure and operate test environments, leveraging Kubernetes and containerized deployments to support end-to-end test execution.
• Champion Best Practices: Define and promote testing standards and automation practices across engineering teams, ensuring consistency and scalability.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with developers, DevOps engineers, and product managers to integrate testing into the SDLC and ensure features are testable from the design stage onward.
• Hands-On Execution: Write, execute, and maintain automated tests, investigate failures, and provide actionable feedback to development teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in QA engineering, test automation, or related roles.
• Strong experience with integration, acceptance, and end-to-end test automation.
• Proficiency with testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent.
• Solid programming/scripting skills (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and test reporting tools (e.g., Allure).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments for running automated tests.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, coverage analysis, and quality metrics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building automation frameworks for distributed or microservices-based systems.
• Familiarity with coverage and quality tools (e.g., JaCoCo, Istanbul, SonarQube).
• Knowledge of observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting) in the context of test environments.
• Background in fintech or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering measurable quality improvements.

Expectations:

• Senior-level, individual contributor role.
• Strong software engineering background with the ability to design and implement scalable testing frameworks.
• Capable of assessing, designing, and rolling out best practices for quality assurance across the company.
• Experience with integration through end-to-end testing and ability to drive improvements in test coverage.
• Different from classic QA automation engineers: not only executing test automation but creating the tooling ecosystem.

Role:
Focus: Building tools, frameworks, and automation infrastructure rather than only writing automated test cases.