QA Automation Engineer
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entire development lifecycle - removing bottlenecks, closing coverage gaps, and ensuring that speed and quality grow together, not at each other's expense.Key Responsibilities - Build and evolve robust end-to-end automated test suites in close collaboration with product, domain, and engineering teams, ensuring new functionalities are delivered with high quality, strong integration, reliable performance, and cost-efficient execution. - Shape and implement our quality engineering strategy by improving test reliability, execution speed, scalability, configurability, and resilience - with a strong focus on reducing flakiness and making test suites easier to adapt across products, markets, and environments. - Contribute to AI-powered quality and testing solutions that help teams test smarter, detect risks earlier, improve failure analysis, and increase confidence in release readiness. - Strengthen transparency around quality by improving test reporting, coverage visibility, quality
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metrics, and traceability of test outcomes - providing engineers and stakeholders with clear and actionable insights. - Support the continuous evolution of CI/CD pipelines by integrating efficient automated tests, removing bottlenecks, and promoting shift-left testing practices throughout the development lifecycle. - Complement automation with manual, exploratory, and regression testing where needed to validate complex flows, uncover edge cases, and ensure a high-quality user experience. About the TeamiptiQ is not just an insurance company - we are at the forefront of integrating technology into the life and health insurance space. Our quality engineering team is a group of curious, driven professionals from diverse technical backgrounds, united by a shared goal: to make a lasting impact on customers globally.We build and maintain the quality infrastructure that powers iptiQ's large-scale SaaS platform - a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment running on AWS, using Java, SpringBoot, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL on the backend, and ReactJS and TypeScript on the frontend. Our CI/CD pipeline runs on GitLab, and we leverage Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Kibana, and Grafana for logging and monitoring. End-to-end API testing is performed using Java and GraphQL, UI testing with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Cypress, and performance testing with Gatling.From revolutionizing underwriting processes to creating user-centric digital health tools, our engineers are at the heart of iptiQ's mission to transform how insurance products are developed and delivered - and quality is the thread that runs through all of it.About YouYou are someone who sees quality not as a gate, but as a mindset. You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments where ambiguity is part of the journey, and you bring both technical rigour and strategic thinking to everything you do. You communicate openly, collaborate naturally, and are genuinely excited about shaping how teams think about and practice quality.We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements: - Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin with demonstrated experience writing clean, maintainable, and scalable test code in a professional engineering context. - Hands-on experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, including the use of Cypress as a test automation framework for end-to-end UI testing. - Experience with performance testing tools, specifically Gatling, and a solid understanding of how to design and execute meaningful performance test scenarios. - Familiarity with containerisation technologies, particularly Docker, an