Easygo is hiring a Senior Software Quality Engineer to join our Data and Integration Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and safety of Kick's core platform systems, including foundational components like event pipelines and service gateways. You will embed quality throughout the entire development lifecycle.
What You'll Do
- Embed quality practices within Agile product teams and help implement the broader QA strategy across the SDLC.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to define acceptance criteria and refine testability.
- Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions, providing input on testability, risk, and quality impact.
- Identify testing risks and define appropriate testing strategies for complex features and releases.
- Promote testing best practices and support engineers in building high-quality automated and maintainable tests.
- Contribute to and extend existing automation frameworks while developing robust automated tests.
- Maintain and improve the team's test infrastructure and tooling, ensuring efficient and maintainable test pipelines.
- Lead and perform exploratory testing of new and high-risk features, identifying edge cases and critical defects.
- Evaluate and adopt new testing tools and methodologies, contributing improvements back to the wider QA team.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Software Quality Engineering in Agile environments.
- Strong understanding of software quality principles, best practices, and testing methodologies.
- Proficient in designing, developing, and maintaining automated E2E test suites using Playwright or similar.
- Experience building and maintaining API test suites in Go, leveraging Go standard libraries.
- Exposure to, or experience contributing to, lower-level tests such as Unit and Integration tests.
- SQL proficiency for investigation and debugging.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes (k8s), and cloud services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud).
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions).
- Experience using monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana).
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on preventing defects and improving reliability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka and AWS SQS.
- Strong knowledge of distributed and concurrent systems, including practical understanding of transactions, consistency trade-offs, and race-condition risks.
- Exposure to performance testing tools such as k6, with the ability to analyse performance metrics and identify bottlenecks.
Technical Stack
- Testing: Playwright, k6
- Languages/Frameworks: Go
- Data: SQL
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud
- CI/CD: AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions
- Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, Grafana
- Messaging: Kafka, AWS SQS
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Data and Integration Infrastructure team, an established engineering team responsible for enabling and accelerating product and service teams working on Kick.
Benefits & Compensation
- Annual performance bonus
- Professional development and career progression opportunities
- Private health insurance for you and your dependants
- Daily catered lunch, snacks and beverages
- Parking reimbursement
- Modern Belgrade office
- Opportunities to collaborate with and occasionally visit Melbourne headquarters
- Regular team-building activities
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Belgrade. Easygo believes in-person collaboration is key and fosters a professional, collaborative working environment.
