QA Specialist

We are looking for a QA Specialist with deep expertise in test automation to help us raise the quality bar across the Inriver platform. You will own and evolve our automated testing strategy – spanning API, integration, UI, and performance testing – and embed quality practices into every stage of the development lifecycle. Inriver is a multi-tenant SaaS platform built on Microsoft Azure, serving over 1,600 global brands. Our architecture is API-first and MACH-certified, with services spanning product enrichment, syndication, content onboarding, AI-powered agents, and Digital Shelf Analytics. Ensuring platform stability and reliability at this scale requires a mature, well-maintained automation framework – and that’s where you come in. What You Will Do • Drive and help to improve the test automation strategy across the Inriver platform, ensuring comprehensive coverage of APIs, integrations, UI workflows, and data pipelines. • Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and CI/CD-integrated test suites that run reliably across environments. • Develop and maintain API and contract tests for Inriver’s REST APIs, syndication endpoints, and MCP Server integrations. • Implement performance and load testing to validate platform behaviour under production-scale conditions, supporting our platform stability goals. • Champion shift-left testing practices by collaborating closely with developers to embed testability, code-level testing, and quality gates early in the development process. • Define and track quality metrics, test coverage, and defect trends to give teams and leadership clear visibility into product health. • Mentor and guide other engineers on testing best practices, automation patterns, and quality mindset across the engineering organisation. • Contribute to incident analysis and root-cause investigation, identifying gaps in test coverage that allowed defects to reach production. • Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and approaches to keep our test automation stack modern and effective. What you’ll bring We don’t expect you to tick every box - but we think you’ll thrive here if you have many of the below: ✔️ 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance with a strong focus on test automation. ✔️ Proven experience designing and maintaining automated test frameworks in Python/C#/.NET or similar technology stacks. ✔️ Strong skills in API testing and contract testing using tools such as REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Pact, or equivalent. ✔️ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar) and integrating automated tests into build and release workflows. ✔️ Solid understanding of performance and load testing using tools like k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Azure Load Testing. ✔️ Solid understanding of UI testing using Playwright ✔️ Experience working with cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure or equivalent platforms. ✔️ Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex system behaviour into clear, maintainable test cases. ✔️ Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with developers, product owners, and SRE teams. Ready to apply? 📬 We’d love to hear from you. If you’re curious but not 100% sure, we still encourage you to apply. We’re happy to explore the fit together!