Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.
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 a Senior Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
- Automation of regression and functional testing on UI and API level
- Reviewing automation code and mentoring QA engineers in the team
- Analysing test results, investigating failures and reporting defects
- Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
- Integrating automated testing into CI processes
- Preparation of test reports and clear communication of results to stakeholders
- Defining and executing an appropriate testing strategy that is aligned on domain level as well as ensuring the availability of suitable test data
- Helping to realise efficient solutions for assuring quality where automation comes up against its limitations
- Supporting 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
- Working with Product Owners to ensure testable feature specifications and champion approaches like test-driven development or behaviour-driven development
Requirements:
- QA Automation: 5+ years of experience in web applications
- TypeScript / JavaScript: 3+ years
- Playwright: 3+ years of hands-on experience
- API Test Automation: 3+ years (Playwright API or similar)
- Automation Framework Design: experience building frameworks from scratch
- C# + Selenium WebDriver: 1+ year of commercial experience
- NUnit / xUnit
- AWS Cloud: strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-based testing environments
- CI/CD integration (preferably GitLab CI)
- Page Object Model (POM)
- Functional, regression, API, and end-to-end testing
- BDD / TDD
- Code reviews and mentoring
- English: Upper-Intermediate (B2+)
What’s in it for you?
- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
- Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
- Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
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.
As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.
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.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional QA automation experience with web products
- 3+ years of hands-on test automation experience with TypeScript and Playwright
- 3+ years of API automation experience using Playwright API testing or a similar tool
- Experience creating automation frameworks from scratch
- At least 1 year of commercial QA automation experience with C# and Selenium WebDriver
- Experience with NUnit or xUnit
- Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Playwright Test Runner, npm, Git, ESLint, SonarQube, PageObject pattern, API testing, and request interception
- Practical knowledge of QA practices, tools, and methods in an agile context and at scale
- Experience with cloud technologies and services, preferably AWS
- Experience with Atlassian tools including JIRA and Confluence
- Experience testing RESTful services and front-end applications end to end
- Knowledge of test automation strategies, approaches, procedures, methods, techniques, and testing types
- Experience with functional, contract, integration, performance, and load testing
- Practical knowledge of BDD and TDD
- Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, preferably GitLab CI
- Performance testing experience with Gatling Cloud
- API test automation experience with microservices-based applications
- Knowledge of SQL, PostgreSQL, or similar databases
- Hands-on Docker experience
What We Do
Ciklum is a global Digital Solutions Company for Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations alike around the world. The company is headquartered in London and has software development centres and branch offices in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, UAE and Pakistan. Ciklum builds tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies for such clients as Just Eat, Flixbus, Metro Markets, EFG International, Zurich Insurance, Lottoland and others. For more information about us visit www.ciklum.com
