QA Automation Engineer
Reward Gateway, part of Edenred, is a global leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help businesses attract, engage, and retain top talent through strategic reward, recognition, and well-being solutions.
Guided by our shared missions - ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work’ and ‘Enriching Connections, For Good’ - we’re committed to transforming workplaces and improving people’s daily lives.
Our team embodies entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and respect. We push boundaries, speak up, and stay human, fostering a culture where imagination thrives.
Your Role in Our Mission
We are seeking a skilled Test Automation Engineer with a strong focus on front-end automation testing to join our Quality Engineering team for the SmartPay platform. In this hands-on role, you will design, develop, and execute automated tests for web and API applications, driving quality and reliability. Experience with performance and back-end testing is a valuable asset. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines and shift testing left.
Location & Contract Type: This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed
Location & Contract Type: This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed
Test Automation & Framework Ownership
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web and API testing.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and reporting.
- Build test suites across DevOps stages to ensure rapid feedback and continuous quality.
- Own and run existing JMeter scripts; maintain and expand coverage over time.
- Collaborate with the team to shift performance testing earlier in the lifecycle.
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Align automation strategy with wider quality objectives, working with the team.
- Partner with engineers to embed testing early in the SDLC.
- Collaborate on coding standards, test design, and automation best practices.
- Hands-on experience in UI automation (Cypress, or similar).
- Comprehensive grasp of OOP concepts and design patterns.
- Proficiency in programming languages (JavaScript or TypeScript or Python or similar).
- Experience with API testing (Postman or Bruno or similar) and SQL for data validation.
- Background in Agile and DevOps environments, with CI/CD and version control systems (Git).
- Hands on experience using containerization platforms (Docker).
- Familiarity with cloud (AWS) environments.
- Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter or similar).
- Experience of working with TCMS (BrowserStack products).
- Strong communication skills, able to work across engineering and product teams.
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
- Technically confident, with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Willingness to learn and lead performance testing practices as they evolve.
- Working knowledge of non-functional quality: accessibility basics (WCAG), performance basics and security/privacy awareness in test data.
- Contract testing with Pact (or similar).
- Familiarity with AI/LLM tools for QA - using agents/models to generate/maintain tests and other activities.
- Screening interview with the Talent Acquisition Partner
- First Stage Interview with a Senior QA Engineer.
- Final Stage online interview with the QA Manager and an Engineering Lead.
At Reward Gateway | Edenred, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate.
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