Quality engineer (auto) for cloud services

Nexcess provides specialty cloud solutions for organizations where performance and compliance have to coexist. We serve businesses worldwide, from agencies scaling client sites to enterprises running mission-critical operations. We've built our reputation on deep technical expertise and genuine partnership with every client we work with. Behind every environment we manage is a team of people who take the craft seriously and keep showing up when it matters.

• Own quality end to end within the Cloud Services domain.
• Take responsibility for how features are validated from specification through development, testing, deployment, and production.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks and test coverage.
• Develop reliable automated tests that provide confidence in new functionality, regression coverage, and production readiness.
• Define testing strategy early in the development process.
• Identify risks, edge cases, dependencies, and failure scenarios before implementation is complete, rather than discovering them at the end.
• Translate requirements into clear and testable acceptance criteria.
• Work with engineers and stakeholders to remove ambiguity and make sure expected behavior can be verified objectively.
• Verify changes and provide evidence.
• Test both expected behavior and failure scenarios, validate coverage on changed code, and ensure pull requests contain clear evidence that changes are ready for production.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of your daily workflow.
• Apply agentic tooling to testing, review, and automation while critically validating generated output and remaining accountable for the final result.
• Review code and test changes from other engineers.
• Identify quality, reliability, and design risks early and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Improve testing efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Identify repetitive validation work and replace it with reliable automation wherever practical.
• Support production quality.
• Participate in incident analysis, help identify gaps in test coverage, and ensure production issues lead to improvements in automated testing and engineering practices.
• Mentor other engineers in quality practices.
• Share testing approaches, automation techniques, and quality standards across the team.
• Work across existing and unfamiliar systems.
• Understand how different components interact and build effective test coverage for complex or legacy systems without requiring them to be rewritten.
• Coordinate quality dependencies across teams.
• Identify integration risks early and work directly with relevant engineers to ensure cross-team changes are tested appropriately.

• 5+ years of experience with automated testing frameworks and software quality engineering.
• Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites for production software.
• Experience testing complex production systems across multiple components or services.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, including functional, integration, regression, and failure-path testing.
• Experience defining test strategies and translating requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience working closely with software engineers throughout the development lifecycle rather than testing only after development is complete.
• Ability to read and understand application code well enough to identify risks, test gaps, and potential defects.
• Experience with production systems and incident analysis, including using production issues to improve test coverage.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering or testing tools as part of day-to-day technical work.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team across multiple time zones.
• Будет плюсом: 5+ years of experience with CDN, WAF, and server security; Experience with one or more of the following technologies: Perl, PHP, React, or Vue; Experience in managed hosting, cloud platforms, or another high-availability service environment; Experience building or improving CI/CD-integrated automated testing; Experience mentoring engineers or helping establish quality and testing standards across a team

• Permanent, Full-time
• work in a team of professionals at international level;
• opportunity to practice and improve your English;
• excellent pay and all necessary equipment;
• remote work with the possibility to use our co-working space in Bratislava;
• employee referral program with bonuses for successful referrals;
• 4,500 - 6,000 EUR per month (SDC Slovakia)
• 4,500 - 6,000 EUR per month (SDC Bulgaria)
• 5,000 - 6,100 EUR per month (SDC Cyprus)