Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality for event-driven, distributed systems. In this role you will design and maintain integration and contract testing, build Kafka-based test harnesses, enforce schema compatibility as a CI gate, and drive failure-mode and resilience testing across a heterogeneous data landscape. You will be responsible for embedding automated test gating directly into the CI/CD pipeline so that quality is validated continuously and early.
Job opportunity on getonbrd.com.
Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain integration and contract testing for event-driven, distributed systems.
Build and enforce schema compatibility testing against a schema registry as part of a CI gate.
Develop and maintain Kafka producer/consumer test harnesses.
Own and evolve Docker Compose-based test environments.
Build and maintain automated test frameworks and API test suites.
Manage test data across multiple, heterogeneous data stores.
Design and execute failure-mode and resilience testing, including idempotency, retries, and conflict resolution.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for test gating.
Required Qualifications
Testing & Automation
Integration and contract testing for event-driven, distributed systems.
Automated test frameworks: xUnit/NUnit,



and an API testing tool (Postman or equivalent).
Kafka producer/consumer test harness development.
Event Streaming & Schema Management
Schema compatibility testing against a schema registry, as part of a CI gate.
Test Environments & Data
Docker Compose-based test environment ownership.
Test data management across multiple, heterogeneous data stores.
Resilience & CI/CD
Failure-mode and resilience testing (idempotency, retries, conflict resolution).
CI/CD pipeline integration for test gating.
Nice to Have
Apache Avro.
Azure DevOps.
SQL Server, MongoDB/Cosmos, and MariaDB.
AI-augmented test generation/maintenance tooling.
Chaos-engineering or fault-injection tooling.
GETONBRD Job ID: *****
Conditions
Partially remote
You can work from your home some days a week.
Health coverage
Improving pays or copays health insurance for employees.
Computer provided
Improving provides a computer for your work.
Informal dress code
No dress code is enforced.
Vacation over legal
Improving gives you paid vacations over the legal minimum.
Remote work policy
Hybrid
This job is performed partly from home and partly at the office in Ciudad de México, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Aguascalientes or Querétaro (Mexico).

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