QA Automation Engineer (IJ Platform/ Dev Environments)

Location: Belgrade, Serbia; Berlin, Germany; Limassol, Cyprus; Munich, Germany; Paphos, Cyprus; Prague, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland; Yerevan, Armenia

Department: Platform DevEnv QA

At JetBrains, we have a passion for building the strongest, most effective developer tools in the world. Our tools are designed to give developers the freedom to grow, discover, and create. Over eight million of the world's most dynamic developers speed up their workflows using our products, which help them stay focused on code design and the big picture, allowing them to deliver more creative and effective results.

We’re looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our Dev Environments team and help ensure the quality and reliability of WSL, Docker, Kubernetes, Dev Containers, and other virtualized development environment tooling within the IntelliJ-based product family.

As a QA Automation Engineer, you're not just writing tests – you're:

• Strengthening the team's confidence in product quality: Your automation allows the team to iterate quickly while maintaining stability.
• Partnering with QA Engineers to drive a culture devoted to quality: You advocate for testability and quality throughout the development process.
• Solving challenging problems: Testing developer tools allows you to work in complex technical scenarios and flex your strong investigation skills.

What you'll do

Core responsibilities

Test automation 

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scenarios (UI, E2E, and functional) across various operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS) and environments like Docker and WSL.
• Expand test coverage for new and existing functionality.
• Improve existing automation based on team feedback, reduce test flakiness, and automate routine checks.
• Debug and troubleshoot test failures, distinguishing product issues (regressions) from infrastructure-related issues (including test, framework, or environment).
• Optimize test execution time and reliability.
• Contribute to frameworks and tools with product-specific extensions as needed.

Quality assurance

• Monitor test execution results and investigate failures.
• Participate in release quality assessments.
• Collaborate with QA Engineers and developers on testability and quality improvements:
• Participate in design discussions to reveal risks early.
• Suggest testing approaches.
• Deal with regressions before they reach users.
• Help define test strategies and quality gates for your team.
• Support manual QA activities when needed, for example by reporting bugs in YouTrack and verifying that they are fixed.
• Fill the gap between manual testing and automated execution by co-authoring test plans and aligning quality strategy within the team.

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 within your team's scope.
• Share knowledge about automation best practices with other team members.
• Work with the tooling team to adopt new frameworks and practices.

What we're looking for

Required skills

Technical foundation

• Proven experience in test automation.
• Solid programming skills in Kotlin or Java and a good understanding of the 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).

Quality mindset

• Ability to isolate root causes and distinguish product bugs from environment issues.
• Attention to detail, even while maintaining focus on overall quality goals.

Collaboration

• Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal).
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with other teams.
• Comfort with giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Ability to grasp new concepts quickly and to work both in a team and independently.

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.

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