Expert Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum is looking for an Expert Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in Bulgaria.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Expert Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional team. Being an enthusiast in creating flawlessly working software solutions for our customers, with a strong DevSecOps mindset, and thanks to your excellent collaboration skills you will work with your team in delivering. the best answers to our customers’ needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation. You care diligently about the quality of your work, including proper documentation and security aspects. With your advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems you are able to take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across your domain.

Responsibilities:

• Use your deep technical skills to work with your team on defining, executing and maintaining efficient, highly automated test setups over the whole testing pyramid, from functional testing, integration and contract testing to performance and load testing
• Be responsible for defining and executing an appropriate testing strategy that is aligned on domain level as well as ensuring the availability of suitable test data
• Help to realise efficient solution for assuring quality where automation comes up against its limitations
• Coach and support your colleagues with deep knowledge to improve expertise in ensuring the quality of software products over the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying applications
• Coach and guide more junior Quality Engineers and help them to grow and develop their expertise
• Help to continuously advance tooling, processes, and ways of working, always having our customers in mind, and thus embed all-team quality ownership
• Work with Product Owners to ensure testable feature specifications and champion approaches like test-driven development or behaviour-driven development
• Tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying software and contribute to increasing automation
• Be able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the domain’s Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively
• Demonstrate active contribution to Communities of Practice, including collaboration in shared initiatives. For this you are well-connected across the domain and within the broader our community
• Love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level. You regularly coach, guide and develop more junior colleagues. You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas

Requirements:

• We know that sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit!
• Deep and proven practical knowledge of and expertise in quality assurance practices, tools and methods in an agile context and at scale
• Practical experience with a range of cloud technologies and services (preferably AWS)
• Experience working with Atlassian tool set (JIRA, Confluence and integrations)
• Experience in end-to-end application testing (restful services, front applications, automation)
• Strong understanding of Automation test strategy, Automation test limitations
• Should have progressing skills in Testing Lifecycle, Testing Expertise, Testing Techniques, Test and Quality Management
• A good team player with a great attitude and a passion for technology
• Programming Language: TypeScript (and JavaScript)
• Test Automation Framework: Playwright
• Assertion Libraries: Built-in Playwright assertions
• Package Manager: npm
• Version Control: Git
• Linting: ESLint
• Test Runner: Playwright Test Runner
• Framework Design: PageObject pattern
• API Testing Framework: Playwright API testing
• Mocking & Stubbing: Playwright request interception
• Code Security: SonarQube
• Experience with Performance Testing in Gatling Cloud
• Strong technical prowess in all quality assurance areas including automation, functional, contract, integration, performance and load testing
• Deep practical knowledge of software engineering practices like BDD and TDD
• Proven ability to define and execute quality strategies at scale
• Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
• Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
• Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills
• Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering (e.g. like described in the ACM Code of Ethics)
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner, transparent
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous

What’s in it for you?

• Regular salary reviews based on performance
• Corporate events: webinars, offline parties, and meetups
• Internal Mobility Program
• Tailored education path (including full access to Udemy, certifications, etc.)
• 25 paid days off: 20 business days of vacation per calendar year + 5 undocumented sick leave days
• Additional health insurance
• 100% company-covered Multisport card, with discounts available for family members

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

Since expanding to Bulgaria in 2022, we’ve been building a fast-growing team that thrives on learning, collaboration, and innovation. Join us on this exciting journey and help shape the future of our delivery center.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.