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.
Job Description- 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, iGaming or payments background.
Additional Information6-month engagement, likely to extend. Start in early December. The team is based in Eastern Europe and Azerbaijan, so an early start is needed.
Skills Required
- 3-4+ years of QA experience
- At least 2 years automating tests for backend services and APIs
- Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
- API test automation experience using Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Experience running tests in CI/CD pipelines
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher
- Ability to start work early to overlap with the team
- Performance testing experience with k6, Gatling, or JMeter
- Resilience or fault-injection testing experience
- Contract testing experience, such as Pact
- Experience with multi-tenant systems
- Go test automation experience
- Gaming, iGaming, or payments industry background
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core hiring markets, with “good salary” cited in multiple locales. Public salary snapshots provide a baseline that helps candidates assess offers and negotiations.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote or hybrid options are prominently highlighted, and a remote‑work program is publicly noted alongside positively cited work‑from‑home experiences. Flexibility around schedules and location is presented as part of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Private medical care, language classes, sports/fitness support, and learning initiatives are listed for several Central/Eastern European locations, with occasional workation perks promoted. These lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement base pay and can enhance perceived total rewards.
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What We Do
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond. For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery. A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.
