Senior QA Automation Engineer (Java) Bucharest

Project Description:
Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients.
You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.
On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities:
• Perform functional, regression, integration, load and stress testing
• Identify bugs and issues, maintain documentation
• Coordinate bug fixes with Development teams
• Maintain test environments
• Develop and extend in-house testing automation tools and test frameworks
• Develop QA Processes and Procedures
• Plan and implement full set of test automation activities: create, maintain and execute automated tests
• Working in a global environment with distributed delivery teams developing microservices to meet the functionalities required by the business
• Participate in full development cycle
• Work with BAs and Engineers on functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with other teams to build systems and integrate them together
• Structure the delivery of program elements into epics and user stories, and facilitate integration between various teams output for production releases, with support from BA, Architects, and Scrum Masters / Product Owners
• Participate with development teams in release management and process improvement
• Automate test cases and maintain automation framework

Mandatory Skills Description:
• 5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer
• UI web front end automation tools testing experience
• Advanced Java and Selenium knowledge
• Hands on experience in REST API testing tools, Gherkin/Cucumber, CI/CD tools integrations
• Experience with dev platforms such as BitBucket/GitHub, Artifactory
• Strong technical vision and hands-on experience in software development and test automation, including BDD and TDD
• Automate test cases and maintain automation framework
• Proven experience of delivering results in matrixed organizations under pressure and tight timescales
• Test issues and risks management
• Prior experience working with Scrum practices and Agile software methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence). Knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Test planning, test design, and test execution
• Test automation framework development and maintenance
• Defect identification, tracking, and root cause analysis
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• AI-assisted test case generation from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Effective use of Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and other AI-enabled testing tools.
• Prompt engineering for testing use cases and quality scenarios.
• AI-assisted automation script generation and maintenance.
• AI-driven test data generation and test environment preparation.
• Drive adoption of AI tools and practices across testing activities.
• Leverage AI to generate and optimize test cases, test data, and automation scripts.
• Use AI-assisted analysis to improve defect detection, root cause investigation, and test coverage.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Hands-on experience with GCP

Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate