Senior Test Engineer
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Summary
Senior Test Engineer at SEON in Budapest owning end-to-end quality for key product areas: building and maintaining Python-based API/service automation, migrating suites to Playwright, defining CI/CD quality gates in GitHub, and mentoring QA engineers in a hybrid work setup.
- Ownership of end-to-end quality for key product areas
- Building reliable automated coverage across API and service layer
- Driving test strategy decisions and proposing solutions
- Writing production-quality Python automation
- Leading test strategy decisions and guiding coverage and implementation
- Migrating Python automation suite to Playwright
- Acting as quality steward for critical backend services, APIs, and data flows
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test suites in Python
- Leading automation design decisions for test pyramid and suite stability
- Building and improving Python test framework focusing on reliability and speed
- Partnering with developers and product managers during requirements and design phases
- Reviewing test-related code including AI tooling output
- Guiding unit and integration testing practices
- Debugging complex failures using production telemetry
- Defining and maintaining CI/CD quality gates in GitHub
- Developing practical test data strategies for automated and exploratory testing
- Contributing to non-functional testing including performance, reliability, and security-by-default
- Mentoring QA engineers and developers on Python automation best practices
- 4+ years of experience in QA automation or Test Engineering with deep Python automation development
- Strong API testing experience using Python-based frameworks
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, web services, and event-driven systems
- Experience building and maintaining automation inside CI/CD pipelines including GitHub Actions
- Clean, reusable Python code with thoughtful design patterns
- Confidence leading technical discussions on test strategy and automation approach
- Comfort using modern AI tools with engineering judgment and ownership
- Playwright experience or genuine interest in learning it
- Contract testing experience using Pact or similar tools
- Performance testing experience, k6 preferred
- Docker and cloud-native familiarity with microservices architectures
- Test management and traceability experience using tools like TestRail, Testmo, or similar
- Documentation habits in Confluence or Coda
- Equity
- Real ownership of end-to-end quality
- Collaborative engineering culture treating QA as engineering
- Modern tooling and room to experiment
- Ability to influence how the company works
- Fair compensation
- Employee stock ownership plan
- National holidays and generous holiday allowance
- Flexible work schedule
- Enhanced parental leave policies
- Private health insurance including coverage for spouse and dependents
- Hybrid working environment with remote and office collaboration
- Employee assistance and mental health support platform
- Monthly company breakfast and weekly lunch allowance
- Access to learning and development opportunities including external L&D
- Weekly language courses in 40+ languages
- Book allowance for business books
- Canteen
- Cafe
- Corporate events
- Bicycle storage
- Free fruits, snacks
- Free coffee, soft drinks
- Free breakfast
- Free lunch
- Play corner
