QA Automation Engineer (IJ Platform / Remote Development)

JetBrains develops developer tools used by over eight million developers worldwide. The Remote Development team focuses on redirecting IDE-heavy processing from local machines to powerful remote servers, enhancing developer productivity and security.

Required skills:

• Proven experience in test automation.
• Solid programming skills in Kotlin or Java and good understanding of JVM.
• Experience with test frameworks: JUnit or TestNG.
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (TeamCity or similar).
• Experience with reporting tools (Allure or others).
• Version control experience (Git).
• Ability to isolate root causes and distinguish product bugs from environment issues.
• Attention to detail with focus on overall quality goals.
• Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Comfort with giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently and in a team.

Nice to have:

• Experience testing developer tools, IDEs, and desktop applications.
• Experience building automated testing infrastructure and processes.
• Experience in performance testing.
• Experience in manual testing.

Test automation:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests (UI, E2E, functional, and integration) across Linux, Windows, macOS, Docker, and WSL.
• Expand test coverage for new and existing functionality.
• Monitor automated test execution results.
• Debug and troubleshoot test failures, distinguishing product issues from infrastructure-related issues.
• Optimize test execution time and reliability.
• Improve test automation stability and contribute to automation frameworks.

Quality assurance:

• Report bugs in YouTrack and verify fixes and backports.
• Participate in release quality assessments.
• Collaborate with QA and developers on testability and quality improvements.
• Help define test strategies and quality gates.
• Support manual QA activities when needed.

Continuous improvement:

• Define and track quality metrics including testing coverage, failure rate, and flakiness.
• Identify gaps in test coverage and propose solutions.
• Improve domain-specific test infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Share knowledge about automation best practices.
• Work with tooling team to adopt new frameworks and practices.

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