QA Engineer - Backend (Golang) Senior [Core Banking Systems]

About this role

We are looking for a QA Engineer - Backend (Golang) for the Core Banking Systems Team — a team focused on building reliable and scalable backend systems at the core of our financial infrastructure. The team develops solutions for credit card issuing and processing, working with a microservices architecture and technologies such as Kafka and PostgreSQL. A key part of the team's work is ensuring that our systems are secure, resilient, and compliant with Mexican banking and accounting regulations.

Challenges that await you:

• Requirements analysis, creation of test scenarios, and preparation of test data

• Development and maintenance of test documentation

• Acceptance and regression testing (automated and manual)

• Manual testing responsibilities are an essential part of the role, including on-site involvement and ownership of the testing process.

• Writing and maintaining automated tests in Go

• Support of the test project

• Development and maintenance of the test project

• Integration of automated tests into CI/CD

• Development and maintenance of testing infrastructure and tools

• Identification, localization, and reporting of defects using a bug tracking system

• Communication with the product team during development and participation in releases

• Developing and maintaining custom tools to support the testing process (e.g., mock services, data generators, reporting tools)

What makes you a great fit:

• Experience in developing and maintaining test documentation

• Experience in programming with Go / Java / Kotlin / Python

• Experience working with Git or other version control systems

• Experience working with SQL

• Experience in developing and maintaining automated tests in Java / Kotlin / Python / Go

• Experience in developing and maintaining a test framework

• Experience working with CI/CD tools

• Experience in developing and maintaining testing infrastructure and tools

• Knowledge and understanding of design patterns

• Experience working with message queues (Kafka)

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B1 or higher English level for effective communication with an international team

Your bonus skills:

• Experience working with gRPC and Protobuf

• Experience with frameworks: dailymotion/allure-go, Gomega (Go) / JUnit5, Allure (Kotlin) / allure-pytest, pytest (Python)

• Experience in load testing

• Knowledge and understanding of software design patterns

Our ways of working:

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Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions

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Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication

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Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community

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Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together

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High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances

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Team time zone: The team works within the GMT+1 to GMT+5 time zone

Our benefits:

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Relocation support to one of our hubs — Cyprus, Serbia, Georgia, Kazakhstan— with assistance for the employee and their family

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Flexible work from one of our offices or remote

• Healthcare Coverage

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Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications

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Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursement

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Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave

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