Senior QA Automation Engineer

R Systems is searching for an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our team of innovators!

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with strong experience in building and maintaining automated test frameworks for distributed systems and REST-based applications.

You will work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, and product teams to ensure high-quality delivery across microservices, APIs, and integrations. The role is highly technical and involves designing automation solutions, not just executing manual test cases.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys coding, debugging, and improving automation architecture in complex environments.

Your contribution:

Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks using Ruby + Cucumber and Selenium.
Develop automated tests for:

REST/HTTP APIs
Integration flows
Backend services
UI flows using Selenium / Watir.

Build scalable test solutions supporting CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
Validate system behavior using PostgreSQL queries and data verification.
Integrate automated testing into delivery pipelines to support continuous testing.
Work with distributed systems and external integrations (e.g., Keycloak, AWS services).
Analyze failures, debug issues across services, and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
Participate in test strategy definition and improve QA practices across teams.
Contribute to performance, reliability, and regression testing approaches.
Maintain documentation and promote test maintainability and readability.
Technical Environment
You will work with technologies such as:

Languages & Frameworks

Ruby (primary automation language)
Cucumber (BDD testing)
Selenium WebDriver / Watir

API & Integration Testing

Faraday, HTTPClient, Typhoeus
JSON / JSONPath validation

Data Validation

PostgreSQL (pg gem)
SQL-based verification

Security & Identity

Keycloak-based authentication flows

CI/CD

Jenkins pipelines
Automated test execution in build workflows
Docker containers

Cloud / Infrastructure (Nice to Have)

AWS SDK usage (S3, messaging, or integrations)
Distributed / microservice architecture

Bring along:

4+ years of experience in QA Automation or Software Testing
Solid hands-on experience writing automated tests in Ruby.
Experience with Cucumber / BDD-style frameworks.
Strong understanding of REST API testing.
Experience validating data using SQL / PostgreSQL.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
Familiarity with Docker containers
Ability to debug failures across multiple systems.
Understanding of HTTP, authentication, and service-based architectures.
Comfortable working in Agile environments.
Experience in automation engineering.
Designed or significantly improved an automation framework.
Strong understanding of:
Test architecture
Maintainability patterns
Parallel execution strategies
Environment-aware testing
Experience testing distributed / microservice systems.
Ability to mentor other QA engineers and review automation code.
Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, APIs, and data layers.
Familiarity with Dockerized test environments.
Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines at scale.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Knowledge of identity/security testing (OAuth2, Keycloak).
Experience testing event-driven or asynchronous systems.
Experience working with AWS environments.

What's in it for you:

Hybrid work policy

A hybrid work policy, to promote and improve work-life balance! We’ll also provide the proper work equipment to ensure there is no digital barrier you can’t break.

Health coverage

Stay healthy and feel always in safe hands with full access to private medical subscription.

Professional development

Keep your knowledge fresh and achieve your professional goals, with free and unlimited access to Udemy online learning platform.

Building a community

If you know some awesome & talented innovators, recommend them to us and you’re in for a neat referral bonus. We also hope you’ll genuinely like us enough to stick around and enjoy our long-term contribution rewards.

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People-centered offices

Our offices are not only hip and cool, with private and co-working spaces, but also situated in central city locations, so that you can get there easily. Coming to the office is also a great opportunity to enjoy some fun activities in the company of your colleagues.

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Food for thought

To feed both your body and brain, we like to organize occasional Lunch & Learn sessions. If these leave you hungry for more, you can always enroll in our mentoring & coaching sessions.

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Healthy rivalry

Running shoes are not included in your welcome kit, but you may need to get a pair ASAP because we take our (inter)company sports competitions very seriously. And if you're competitive but sports are not your forte, you can always join our hackathons or reading marathons.

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A chance to give back

If you’re a charitable soul like us you’ll enjoy planting trees, baking cakes, playing chess, crafting, or donating to a cause in our social community events.

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Lots of fun

Our awesome people may be spread across many countries & cities, but we like to team up for some fun as often as we can. Be it team buildings, parties, or other team events, we take on every opportunity to meet and strengthen our sense of community.

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Who we are as a company:

R Systems is a global technology and analytics services company. We help our clients achieve speed-to-market, overcome digital barriers, and create business value with our specialized service offerings and consultative business approach.

We speak the language of business as fluently as we do the language of technology. In other words: We speak Digital. Our goal: accelerate our clients’ digital leadership.

At R Systems EU, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.