[Hiring] Senior QA Automation & Performance Testing Engineer @Poland and Eastern Europe

Role Description

You will be:

• Designing, implementing, and owning an end-to-end performance test strategy and roadmap.
• Building and maintaining journey-based performance tests for key user flows and business-critical scenarios.
• Defining performance benchmarks (SLAs/SLOs), running performance baselines, and providing actionable analysis and reporting.
• Setting up and evolving monitoring/observability practices to support performance testing and diagnosis.
• Integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery processes.
• Leading, guiding, and mentoring the team on modern performance engineering practices and tooling.
• Collaborating with engineering, product, and other stakeholders to align on performance goals and drive adoption of the new approach.
• Supporting the transition from the current team/approach by influencing change and ensuring continuity of delivery.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software test automation and strong performance testing knowledge.
• Multi-year hands-on experience in non-functional testing, with a strong focus on performance testing.
• Practical experience using AI-powered assistants (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to improve productivity, quality, or decision-making in software delivery.
• Proven experience with journey-based performance testing and performance test design for real user scenarios.
• Experience with performance benchmarking, test execution, analysis, and communicating results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with monitoring/observability concepts and using monitoring data to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Practical experience incorporating performance testing into CI/CD and release processes (continuous delivery).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to lead change and align multiple teams around a new performance testing approach.
• Ability to lead and guide a team, including mentoring and setting quality standards.
• Upper intermediate/advanced English (B2/C1).

Requirements

• Immediate availability or a short notice period is preferred.
• Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.

Nice to have

• Experience applying GenAI in a more structured way within the SDLC, including defined workflows, prompt patterns, or tool integrations embedded into daily work.
• Interest in and familiarity with emerging AI-driven practices (e.g. agent-based workflows, automation patterns, AI-augmented development), with a willingness to explore and experiment beyond standard approaches.
• Experience in the parcelling domain.

Recruitment Process

• CV review
• HR call
• Interview
• Client Interview
• Decision