Senior QA Engineer - Automation (m/f/d)

Senior QA Engineer - Automation (m/f/d)

Location: Poland / within Poland 

 

Aras Corporation is a fast-growing, innovative, and trusted provider of software that improves productivity and profitability for engineering, manufacturing, and infrastructure industries. Our unique, resilient, and open software platform allows Aras subscribers to deliver sustainable performance with flexibility and agility to address evolving market requirements. Aras´s Culture is open and collaborative. We value our people and support their personal growth and development, providing an environment in which people can shape their own career paths.


We are seeking a highly technical Senior QA Engineer - Automation (m/f/d) to join our product development team, focused on building and evolving a modern, automation-first quality engineering practice across our SaaS platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the test automation framework (primarily .NET-based), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and ease of contribution by engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain automated tests across different layers (API, integration, end-to-end), with strong focus on API-first systems (OpenAPI-driven).
• Define and enforce quality gates within CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), ensuring consistent and reliable release standards.
• Enable engineers to contribute to automated testing by providing clear patterns, reusable components, and guidelines.
• Leverage OpenTelemetry and Grafana LGTM to validate system behavior, improve observability of tests, and detect quality issues in production-like environments.
• Collaborate closely with development teams working on Azure-based, Kubernetes (AKS), and GitOps-driven systems to ensure testability and quality are built into the architecture.
• Continuously improve test coverage, execution time, and signal quality, including integration with coverage tools.
• Explore and introduce new approaches to improve quality (e.g., contract testing, telemetry-driven validation, synthetic testing).
• Contribute to test strategy for distributed systems, including multi-service SaaS environments.
• Review test implementations and provide guidance to maintain high standards across the codebase.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering with strong focus on automation.
• Solid programming experience in C# / .NET Core, with ability to work in and extend test frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with XUnit (or similar frameworks) and modern test automation practices.
• Strong experience testing API-first systems, including working with OpenAPI/Swagger
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps strongly preferred).
• Familiarity with test coverage tools such as Cobertura.
• Experience working with cloud-native architectures (Azure preferred) and distributed systems.
• Understanding of Kubernetes-based environments and their testing implications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to identify gaps in quality and drive improvements.
• Excellent communication skills; able to influence engineering teams and promote best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenTelemetry and using telemetry data to validate system behavior and improve test strategies.
• Hands-on experience with Grafana LGTM stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo).
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows (e.g., Flux CD, Argo CD).

 

 

Must be eligible to work in Poland