Senior AQA Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer With 5+ years of experience to join our Gaming Hub team. This role focuses on backend and API testing for player-facing platform services in an iGaming environment. You will design, develop and own automated test solutions that ensure reliable, secure and performant backend systems. Experience in iGaming (or similar real-time/transactional domains) is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and scripts focused on backend services and APIs.
• Identify and prioritise test cases for automation (smoke, regression, integration, contract and non-functional).
• Build and maintain automated API tests, contract tests and integration test suites for microservices and platform components.
• Develop and run performance, load, stress and stability tests; analyse results and drive remediation with engineering teams.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and gating flows; own flakiness reduction and test reliability; and be responsible for test outcome reporting and stakeholder communication.
• Work closely with developers, SREs and product to reproduce, triage and resolve issues; drive observability improvements to aid root-cause analysis.
• Define and maintain test data and environment strategies (sandbox tenants, testing flags, user configuration profiles).
• Participate in design refinements, feature planning, team ceremonies and product releases.
• Mentor and collaborate with QA peers to raise automation maturity and testing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience with automation frameworks and tools for backend/API testing (examples: pytest, Postman/Newman, Cypress, Playwright).
• Proficient in one or more programming languages used for automation: Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, including contract/schema validation and end-to-end integration testing.
• Familiarity with service virtualisation / mocking tools and containerised test environments; basic knowledge of orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Hands-on with CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar) and automation integration into pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software testing best practices and methodologies (including test design, flaky test mitigation, CI gating).
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic) to validate behaviour in staging/production.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and communication skills; fluency in English (written & verbal).
• Experience designing and executing performance/load tests (k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar).

Benefits

• Private health insurance.
• Company wide social and team building activities.
• Hybrid & Remote work arrangements.
• Flexible working hours.
• Wellbeing day;
• Training and Development opportunities.

_Logifuture operates across seven countries, with headquarters in Malta and additional offices in the UK (London), Italy (Parma & Lecce), Austria (Innsbruck), Serbia (Kragujevac), Romania (Bucharest) and UAE (Dubai). The majority of our roles listed on our careers page are not restricted by location, giving prospective employees the flexibility to choose any of our offices. Furthermore, we also collaborate with consultants based outside these locations, broadening our talent pool and allowing us to remain agile and competitive in the global market._

_In addition at Logifuture we embrace equality and diversity. We do not discriminate and our values of delivering results together support this statement. We are determined to foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute their unique skills and experiences._