Senior QA Automation Engineer (Nexus Team)

Semrush is a brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. We unify SEO authority and AI visibility, so brands are found, cited, and chosen everywhere search happens. That’s how Semrush gained the trust of over 28 million users—from scaling startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Here, you own the way you work, but we move as one unbeatable team.

We don’t just lead the market, we’re busy creating the world where Semrush is an unfair advantage for every marketer. We move fast in ways to help you grow. Here, you have room to experiment, keep what works, and learn quickly from what doesn’t. Ready to share our ambition and make an impact? Then, this role may be for you.

About the role

• QA Ownership: Drive and own quality assurance processes in the team, including code review, automations of workflows, and adapting new testing best practices.

• Automated Tests: Setting up and maintaining existing automated tests and their frameworks, supporting and covering new features with automated tests.

• Manual Testing: Perform manual testing, primarily focusing on back-end systems.

• Documentation and Collaboration: Create and maintain necessary documentation. Work closely with Product Manager and Tech Lead Manager to refine project requirements. Assist in gathering analytics and collaborate effectively with external teams.

• Technical Assistance: Help internal users with our team's product issues through thorough investigations, discussions, and clarifications.

About you

Move together. Raise the bar. Learn fast—grow faster. That’s the default. And here’s what else is needed to succeed in this role: 

• 5+ years of QA experience with 3+ years of QA automation experience

• Experience in API and UI Test Automation using Java and/or Kotlin

• Understanding of main programming concepts, guidelines, and patterns

• Understanding of web stack and client-server applications, including knowledge of HTTP, RESTful APIs, and browser debugging tools

• Experience with relational databases

• Basic UNIX skills (comfortable with CLI tools)

• Practical experience setting up and maintaining testing infrastructure (CI/CD pipelines, Docker/containerized environments)

• Strong English proficiency for documentation and team collaboration

Not required, but a plus

• Basic knowledge of load testing techniques and tools, security best practices, and PII processing 

• Understanding of and experience with gRPC.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, IaC, etc.

• Knowledge of setting up Quality Gates and processes around them.

• NoSQL experience (Redis, MongoDB, etc)

• Experience working in an agile, cross-functional team and a fast-paced environment.

• Exposure to leveraging AI/LLM tools to optimize QA processes (e.g., code reviews, test data generation, code generation, and analytics).

About the team

The Nexus Team is responsible for customer data management at Semrush, including authorization and user profiles, user data handling, asset storage, and service-to-service access to data. The team oversees all implementations related to data protection and privacy regulations, as well as the personal dashboard for Semrush users.

As the team responsible for user data governance, we focus on ensuring that data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable. This includes the actions people must take, the processes they must follow, and the technology that supports them throughout the user data lifecycle.