Job Description

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, be a part of the team who works on critical business automation initiatives across multiple markets to reduce manual handling times.

The role is required to be comfortable working against projects early on in their lifecycle and dynamic requirements.

The engineer should be skilled in system design and able to target specific levels of testing where needed.

As a recently formed team, they have many opportunities and ideas for sharing value back to the customers within their continuously expanding platform. They're looking for talented and trusted engineers to help them impress their customers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect the automated testing framework to evaluate AI prompt adherence and guardrails for voice and text interfaces
• Design validation strategies for the Ultimate-to-Helix migration and lead overall quality for transcription and intent recognition
• Understand our systems and what we are trying to create
• Help guide developers on what levels of testing should be included as part of their development work
• Scope out and help execute integration tests
• Contribute to our release testing regression pack
• Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness
• Target the level of testing needed for projects at different stages of developement

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in QA Automation
• Experience writing and maintaining code in Java, whether automation or as a developer
• Experience with API testing
• Experience with testing IT support systems
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture testing
• Nice to have the experience with Kubernetes, Docker
• Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and methodologies
• Experience in the creation or active maintenance of test documentation
• Coaching developers and working with other QEs to achieve results
• Experience in the creation of automation frameworks from scratch
• An understanding of different tools used for automation
• Experience with BDD, ATDD, or TDD approaches
• Experience with implementation of continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
• Being comfortable with the unknowns

Personal skills:

• Perform a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts
• Investigate, define and resolve complex issues
• Able to work in distributed cross-functional teams effectively
• Influence customers and team members on the project level
• Plan, schedule and monitor your own work competently
• Have learning agility (readiness for challenge and being open to change)
• Confident Intermediate English (or higher) is a must

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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