Senior QA Automation Engineer (AI)

Location: Symphony Anywhere; talent worldwide with a remote-first mindset

Company

hirify.global is a Netherlands-headquartered, cloud- and AI-driven IT company delivering custom iGaming, healthcare, airline, software development, cloud engineering, data and analytics, and AI services.

What you will do

• Set quality standards and advance testing practices across the organization.
• Develop comprehensive API, UI, and E2E automation strategies and maintain scalable automation frameworks.
• Lead non-functional, performance, and load testing, including scenario design, bottleneck analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Audit the Twilio-to-Realtime-AI call bridge and its AWS-hosted two-way contracts, including media streams, callbacks, retries, and reconciliation.
• Assess voice-service production readiness across health checks, capacity limits, alerting, incident response, AI/session logic, routes, jobs, and schemas.
• Deliver a findings report and prioritized roadmap, then provide part-time advisory support on architecture, webhook and telephony integrations, and operability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer or SDET in an Agile environment, with technical ownership of quality.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Groovy or Java, and the ability to build, maintain, and optimize automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong API, UI, and E2E automation expertise with Selenium/Selenide, OkHttp, TestNG, Cucumber/BDD, or equivalent tools.
• Advanced RESTful API testing knowledge, including request chaining, response validation, data verification, scripting, risk-based testing, and automation strategy development.
• Hands-on performance and load testing experience, including scenario design, system-performance analysis, and bottleneck identification.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD test pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and Gradle, plus automated reporting with Allure or equivalent tools.
• Experience with issue-tracking and test-management tools such as Jira.
• Experience testing cloud-native environments with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with developers, contribute to architectural discussions, explain technical approaches, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience testing asynchronous and event-driven integrations with Apache Kafka or similar platforms.
• Database validation and testing with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or similar databases.
• Experience developing custom Groovy/Java performance and load-testing utilities, including supporting libraries such as Jackson, Logback, and Chart.js.
• Familiarity with CodeNarc or equivalent static code-analysis tools.
• Exposure to Terraform, Splunk, or New Relic.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first Symphony Anywhere model with a global talent network and hybrid work flexibility.
• Workation, laptop as a gift, medical insurance, and 30 days of vacation.
• Professional development through Symphony Academy and the NEO Program.
• Loyalty Program and team-building activities.
• Work with projects and experts across iGaming, cloud, Agile, and AI.

Hiring process

• Application follow-up is indicated, but specific selection stages are not provided.