Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join HiveMQ, a remote-first company, as a (Senior) Quality Assurance Engineer on our Edge team! You will play a key role in defining and implementing QA strategies for our Edge product and open-source ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining automated test frameworks, ensuring product scalability and reliability, integrating testing systems into our CI/CD pipeline, and collaborating with development and customer success teams. This role requires proficiency in test automation, strong Java skills, experience with CI/CD, and API testing. We value a pragmatic approach, teamwork, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Proficiency in test automation using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar frameworks. We use Cypress for end-to-end tests and Percy for visual regression testing
• Strong skills in Java and deep knowledge about the JVM
• Hands-on experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Experience with API testing and related tools
• The ability to solve problems independently and are driven towards execution
• A highly pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and the ability to work as a team
• A good understanding of how agile software engineering using Kanban works
• Excellent English communication skills and able to work in a collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

• Define and implement QA and quality strategies for our Edge product and related Open Source eco system
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites - we have a high bias for automation
• Ensure scalability and reliability through stress, load or chaos testing of products or new features
• Integrate testing systems through our existing development and product environments and CI
• Identify, document, and prioritize defects, working closely with development teams involved or customer success teams as needed
• Collaborate with QA and other engineers from our product teams to improve our quality bar
• Live a culture of teamwork, quality, growth, drive to action, and excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• JavaScript, Typescript and optionally other languages for test automation are a plus
• Some exposure to Testcontainers, Docker and IaC setups using Terraform
• Familiarity with tools like JMeter, k6, or Gatling for performance testing