Quality Automation Engineer

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain automated testing solutions that validate platform behavior across APIs, event-driven architectures, identity and access management, policy decision engines, and end-to-end user journeys.

This is a hands-on engineering role Embedded within an Agile delivery team, with responsibility for driving quality through automation, shift-left testing, and continuous integration practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust API, contract, integration, end-to-end, performance, and resilience testing frameworks.
• Develop automated test suites using Jest, TypeScript, JUnit, Gradle, and Playwright.
• Build and maintain Kafka testing frameworks to validate event streams, consumer behavior, lag management, replay scenarios, and idempotent processing.
• Validate event contracts and payloads using JSON Schema, AJV, and contract testing methodologies.
• Design and execute performance, load, and scalability tests for policy evaluation services and event ingestion platforms.
• Automate testing for identity, authentication, authorization, token life cycle, revocation, and fail-closed security scenarios.
• Integrate automation suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quality gates, automated reporting, and deployment readiness checks.
• Create and maintain clear test reporting using Allure or equivalent reporting frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with developers to promote TDD, BDD, specification-by-example, and defect prevention practices.
• Support continuous improvement of testability, observability, and quality engineering standards across the platform.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience in test automation engineering across APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with Jest, TypeScript, Playwright, JUnit, and Gradle.
• Practical experience testing Apache Kafka, including topic seeding, asynchronous validation, lag monitoring, replay testing, and resilience scenarios.
• Expertise in contract testing, API validation, JSON Schema, and AJV.
• Experience conducting performance, load, and resilience testing for low-latency and high-throughput systems.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD quality gates, automated test reporting, test data management, and release validation.
• Understanding of TDD, BDD, mocking frameworks, specification by example, and shift-left quality engineering.
• Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot applications to support test automation and service validation.
• Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate test creation and validation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience testing OPA/Rego policy engines and authorization decision services.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Ping Identity, LDAP, and IAM testing frameworks.
• Experience with Allure reporting, quality dashboards, and test trend analysis.
• Familiarity with service mesh architectures, API gateways, mTLS, certificate management, and security-focused testing.
• Exposure to highly regulated environments such as Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, or Public Sector organizations.