# [8XS] QA Automation Engineer

Software Mind is a software engineering partner that builds and scales digital products for companies in the US and Europe. Our LATAM teams work directly with client engineering teams on complex, high-impact projects. Write and maintain automated API, contract and integration tests Test Kafka flows: duplicate events, retries, ordering and making sure events are processed once Check that a failing plugin doesn’t affect the rest of the platform or other tenants Run performance and load tests and help track down bottlenecks Add test suites to CI/CD pipelines Contribute to the test strategy together with the client’s QA lead 3-4+ years in QA, with at least 2 years automating tests for backend services and APIs Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar) Solid API test automation in Java, Python, Go or TypeScript Experience running tests in CI/CD pipelines English B2+ (you’ll work daily with a European team) Comfortable starting your day early to overlap with the team Nice to have: performance testing with k6, Gatling or JMeter; resilience or fault-injection testing; contract testing (e.g. Pact); multi-tenant systems; Go test automation; gaming, iGami

- **Id**: 4153974
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/software-mind-8xs-qa-automation-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San José, Costa Rica
- **Countries**: CR
- **Hiring countries**: AZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T06:36:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:08:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1371
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Custom Software Development, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 7464
- **Name**: Software Mind
- **Domain**: softwaremind.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/softwaremind>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Gatling** — Optional: yes
- **JMeter** — Optional: yes
- **k6** — Optional: yes
- **Pact** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Azerbaijan** — Iso: AZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T10:08:58Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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