[Hiring] Software Test Automation Engineer @Next-Link

Role Description

• This is a remote position.
• Design, implement and maintain automated tests for web, API and backend systems; establish robust, scalable test frameworks.
• Define test automation architecture, tooling and strategy; support the transition from manual to automated testing.
• Embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, produce actionable quality metrics and automated reporting.
• Partner with developers and QA teams on regression coverage, shift-left testing and DevSecOps practices.
• Evaluate emerging tooling, including Generative AI-assisted test generation, and support performance testing.

Qualifications

• Either EQF Level 7 university degree with at least 10 years of professional IT experience, or EQF Level 6 degree with at least 12 years of professional IT experience. Degrees in any field are accepted.

Requirements

• Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured; Cucumber JVM or Behave; JUnit and TestNG.
• Java: strong OpenJDK 11/17/21 expertise, including Streams, Collections and Lambda expressions.
• Delivery and performance: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Apache JMeter and test data management.
• Data and application stack: Oracle and complex SQL; Angular/SCSS; Protocol Buffers, Jackson and Gson.
• Security and innovation: JWT/JJWT, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Generative AI test generation and Amazon Kiro.
• Testing fundamentals: QA methodologies, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis; knowledge of grant lifecycle processes (submission through amendments).