# QA Automation Engineer (Junior–Middle)

Join a product QA team testing a cloud security platform for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. You’ll own quality for a product area across UI, API and cloud infrastructure, from requirements through release. Responsibilities Review requirements and designs; raise gaps early Write and maintain test cases and test plans Run functional, regression and E2E testing of UI and REST APIs Set up and maintain test environments in AWS, Azure and GCP Deploy and test on Kubernetes clusters (kubectl, Helm) Validate cloud onboarding flows: IAM roles, permissions, CloudFormation, Terraform Check logs, data and service behavior (SQL, OpenSearch, CLI) Report clear, reproducible bugs and drive them to resolution Contribute to automation (Java, Selenide, REST-assured) and CI pipelines Requirements 0.5–1 year in QA, DevOps or a related role Solid test design techniques and SDLC/STLC knowledge Hands-on with at least one cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) Basics of Linux, CLI and networking Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals REST API testing (Postman or similar) Basic SQL Upper-Intermediate English or higher

- **Id**: 4022943
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/upwind-security-qa-automation-engineer-junior-middle>
- **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**: inferred
- **Locations**: Ukraine
- **Countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T13:39:49Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T13:39:49Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1119
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Security, Application Security, Vulnerability Management

## Company

- **Id**: 9362
- **Name**: Upwind Security
- **Domain**: upwind.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/upwind-security>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **kubectl** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Ukraine** — Iso: UA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T15:41:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:15:38Z

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