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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Career Level:  07 Specialist
Posting Date:  7 Jan 2026

Type: Perm
Hours: Full-Time
Location: Cracow (hybrid: 2 days/week from office) 

Role description:

The Senior QA Automation Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software by driving the development and execution of robust automated testing strategies. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, and DevOps, to design, implement, and maintain scalable testing frameworks. The Senior QA Automation Engineer advocates for Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) approaches while leveraging advanced testing tools and techniques to maximize automation coverage within CI/CD pipelines. With a focus on continuous improvement, this role combines technical expertise, analytical problem-solving, and proactive collaboration to enhance software quality and team efficiency.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and other QA Automation Engineers to contribute to both the testing of new product features, and the improvement of testing of existing/legacy features, using technologies and tools including Testing Tools:
    • Reqnroll/Specflow
    • Postman
    • Playwright
    • Swagger
    • Selenium
  • Analyse business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimate user stories collaboratively with the team
  • Advocating and continuing to maintain an automated Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach with all software solutions
  • Write and execute robust test scripts, attaining a high percentage of test automation and regression within CI/CD pipelines
  • Manual exploratory testing and maintenance of a clear manual test plan for any test scenarios that can't be automated
  • Review logs and databases as part of the testing process, and automate this where possible
  • Following industry best practices and ensure other members of the team do likewise

Required skills and Experience:

  • Professional level (6+ years’ experience) as an Automation QA within a modern software development environment
  • Experience with C# .NetStrong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies
  • BDD experience with high focus on test automation vs manual testing
  • Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests
  • Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests
  • Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with Specflow/Reqnroll
  • Understanding of SQL
  • Experience with agile methodologies

Desired skills & experience:

  • Previous experience in the payments industry or with PCI DSS compliance is advantageous
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerisation tools like Docker and localstack
  • Experience with performance and non-functional testing
  • Knowledge of testing highly available, scalable, and business-critical systems

Required behaviors and attributes:

  • Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies and techniques
  • Good team collaboration and communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Calm under pressure

We offer:  

  • Co-financing of sport activities (Multisport)
  • Additional private medical care
  • Pizza Tuesday
  • Relaxation zone –football table
  • Integration meetings
  • No dress code
  • and much more!  

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