Senior QA Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP
 
Location: Dublin, Ireland – 2/3 days per week in office
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6-12 month contract with extension
Daily Rate: €400 - €450 per day
 
Summary
 
We are hiring a Senior QA Engineer (Contractor) to join a high-performing engineering team building real-time, high-availability payment systems. This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical depth, ownership, and the ability to improve quality from day one.
 
The ideal candidate will bring strong experience across test automation, API testing, UI testing, integration testing, performance testing, SQL validation, mocking/stubbing, CI/CD, and production-quality engineering practices. They should be able to clearly demonstrate their technical decision-making with practical examples.
 
Requirements
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software testing / quality engineering.
  • Strong experience in test automation for web applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
    • Hands-on experience with: Java
    • Cucumber
    • REST API testing
    • SQL Server / SQL
    • TestNG
    • Experience with: Postman
    • WireMock / Mountebank or similar mocking / service virtualisation tools
    • JMeter or other performance testing tools
    • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
    • Version control such as Git / BitBucket
    • Docker and Kubernetes
    • Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
    • Elastic / Kibana or equivalent monitoring / log analysis tools
Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and test suites for web, API, and service-based applications.
  • Own testing activities across the full SDLC: requirements analysis → test design → automation → execution → defect management → release validation.
  • Build and maintain robust automated regression coverage for API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.
  • Validate quality in low-latency, highly available systems with a strong focus on stability, accuracy, and production readiness.
  • Collaborate closely with developers, product teams, DevOps, and other QA engineers to ensure quality outcomes across multiple teams.
  • Drive defects and quality issues to resolution with a strong ownership mindset.
  • Contribute to test strategy, quality standards, release confidence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Review applications and test coverage proactively to identify quality gaps, flaky tests, test data issues, performance risks, and automation opportunities.
  • Support production validation, issue triage, and root cause analysis where needed.