Senior QA Automation Engineer (Security Focus)

Senior QA Automation Engineer (Security Focus)

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Overview

We are a global digital business services organization with a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Our Consulting, Delivery and Learning teams design and deliver transformational digital products and experiences that add value to our clients’ businesses and to their customers’ lives.

Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our client’s most exciting ideas to life.

Would you agree that discovering the unexpected is much more important than confirm what is already known?

If you are an intellectually curious mind with strong analytical skills, then you might be just who we’re looking for: Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to help us shape Emergn’s exciting future and play an important role in our growth.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of an agile team following Value, Flow, Quality guideline principles and practices to provide business value to our customers.
• Develop and maintain automated tests across API, UI, and integration layers to support continuous delivery.
• Build and operate test pipelines, dashboards, and metrics for regression, reliability, and release readiness.
• Integrate security automation tools (SAST, DAST, SCA) into CI/CD workflows; assess vulnerabilities using OWASP Top 10 and triage findings with Dev and Sec
  Ops teams.
• Champion Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices, including
  - based testing, secure coding validation, code review standards, and
  - ready documentation.
• Lead defect triage and root cause analysis; improve test data management, environment stability, and observability.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in QA automation with strong coding skills in Java, Type
  Script, or Python.
• Proficient in test frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and REST-assured.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools (Git
  Hub Actions, Git
  Lab, Jenkins, Azure Dev
  Ops) and enforcing quality gates.
• Familiarity with security tools like OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Semgrep, Sonar
  Qube, Checkmarx, Snyk, and Dependabot.
• Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10, CWE, and SSDLC concepts; proven collaboration with Dev and Sec
  Ops teams.

You might also have

• Experience with performance and contract testing (k6, JMeter, Pact), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Ia
  C), and secrets scanning.

What we offer

• Salary will be defined based on the candidate’s professional competence and market benchmarks.
• Work within a dynamic international team of experts.
• Excellent opportunity for personal and professional development.
• Flexible work model and the freedom to choose the tools that suit you best – Mac or Windows.
• Ability to work with modern technologies.
• Extensive catalogue of educational programs, the possibility of training and certification at the expense of the company.
• Health and life insurance.
• 23 vacation days yearly.
• Birthday gift.

Work where you’ll make an impact every day.

Join us today!

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Information Technology

Industries

• Business Consulting and Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development

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