Senior QA Automation Engineer

We are currently looking for a proactive Senior QA Automation Engineer for our flagship project, Happy Color.

Key Responsibilities:

• Quality Strategy Development: establish quality strategies including the test pyramid, shift-left testing, readiness criteria, and metrics (flakiness, MTTR, defect leakage).

• Test Framework Architecture and Development: Design and develop test frameworks from scratch (e2e/UI, API, contract, integration), including setting standards and best practices.

• Web Automation: Utilize Playwright/Cypress/WebdriverIO for web automation, including parallelization, test stabilization, and visual regression testing.

• API Testing: Perform API testing using REST/GraphQL/WebSocket; create contract tests (Pact) and develop negative/fuzzing scenarios.

• Test Data Management: Generate/anonymize test data, manage fixtures, implement snapshot tests, ensure idempotency, and seed databases.

• Mocks/Stubs: Use tools like MSW/Nock/WireMock to isolate external dependencies and emulate queues/buses.

• CI/CD Integration: Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, including PR runs, nightly/regression tests, flaky detectors, quarantine mechanisms, artifact management, and maintaining stable quality gates.

• Observability: Enhance observability with extended logs, screenshots/videos, tracing, and integrations with Allure/ReportPortal/Sentry.

• Performance and Reliability: Conduct performance testing using k6, perform basic security checks (OWASP ZAP/DAST), and execute accessibility tests (axe-core).

• Team Mentorship and Code Review: Mentor the team, conduct test code reviews, and train product teams on testability and quality.

• Collaboration with Developers: Work closely with developers to reduce technical debt, improve testability, and enhance developer experience (DX).

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years in QA Automation, with at least 3+ years working with TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Framework Expertise: Deep experience with Playwright and/or Cypress; understanding of architectural differences and expectation models.

• Node.js Ecosystem: Strong knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem, including npm/yarn/pnpm, Jest/Vitest/Mocha, ESLint/Prettier, and TSConfig.

• Test Architecture Patterns: Familiarity with test architecture patterns such as Page Object, Screenplay, DRY/SRP, isolation, and state manageability.

• API Testing: Experience with REST/GraphQL API testing; creating contract tests (Pact), working with schemas (OpenAPI/Swagger), and client generation.

• Database and Caching: Basic SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL/MySQL), experience with Redis; handling migrations and local environments.

• Mocks/Stubs and Network Interceptors: Proficiency with MSW, Nock; experience with testing queues (Kafka) is a plus.

• CI/CD: Experience with GitLab CI, artifact management, sharding/parallelism, retries, and pipeline containerization.

• Cloud and Infrastructure: Proficiency with Docker; experience with Kubernetes (k8s) is a plus; familiarity with basic AWS services for test environments.

• Flake Management: Skills in ensuring determinism, managing timeouts and waits, creating idempotent fixtures, and utilizing test telemetry.

• Russian - С1/higher, English - B1.

Nice to have:

• Visual Regression: Experience with Playwright snapshots.

• Load/Stress Testing: Proficiency with k6, result analysis, and setting SLO/SLA.

• Security Automation: Experience with ZAP, Semgrep, API fuzzing.

• Feature Flags and Experimentation: Experience implementing experimentation/feature flags in tests and testing telemetry.

Technology Stack (Primary):

• Language: TypeScript (preferred) and/or JavaScript.

• UI Testing: Playwright; Appium (nice to have).

• API Testing: Jest + axios.

• Performance Testing: k6.

• Reporting: Allure; handling artifacts (videos/screenshots/logs).

• Mocks: MSW, Nock, WireMock.

• DevOps: Docker, GitLab CI, AWS (nice to have).

• Quality Tools: ESLint, Prettier, Husky, commitlint/Conventional Commits.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a creative and dynamic environment.

• Flexible working hours and remote/office work options.

• Career growth and professional development opportunities.

• A fun and inclusive company culture that celebrates diversity and creativity.