Senior Test Automation Engineer (TeamCity)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Evolve the automated testing platform, including frameworks, infrastructure, reporting and CI/CD chains
• ▹Identify slow, manual or fragile parts of the engineering process — such as release automation, feedback loops and test flakiness — and fix them at the root
• ▹Integrate AI into the quality workflow for test generation with guardrails, automated failure triage and self-healing tests
• ▹Work directly with product teams to help them write and own their tests, review contributions and evangelize solid test design
• ▹Investigate failures and flakiness across tests and product code to drive them to resolution
• ▹Participate in all stages of product development, from initial design through release, working with internal and external users

Requirements

• ▹An engineer's approach to quality, preferring to build tools and automate processes rather than maintain legacy tasks
• ▹Strong architectural judgment and a commitment to writing clean, maintainable code
• ▹Practical curiosity about AI, with a clear point of view on where it helps and where it falls short
• ▹A habit of working independently without formal specifications, figuring out the product and what matters most
• ▹Clear, direct communication skills and initiative in working with developers
• ▹Interest in mentoring colleagues and setting technical standards
• ▹Advanced skills in Kotlin or Java, with a solid grasp of object-oriented design and design patterns
• ▹Hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation for complex, mission-critical backends, web services or desktop applications
• ▹Proficiency with testing frameworks (TestNG or JUnit) and browser automation (Selenium WebDriver, Selenide or Playwright)
• ▹Experience with build automation tools such as Gradle or Maven, containerization with Docker or Podman, and reporting tools like Allure
• ▹Command of Git and a solid understanding of software testing principles and concurrent programming

Soft skills

About the company

JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools for developers and teams, used by more than 15 million users, over 300,000 companies, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100. Its mission is to make development teams more productive and AI-adoptable at scale.