Senior QA Automation Engineer at Citrus Systems · Belgrade

Hello there, thanks for paying attention to our vacancy and let us introduce ourselves.

We are an IT company occupying a remarkable place in marketing, gaming, and financial segments of the iGaming industry. Our products are successfully implemented in European, African, and Latin American markets.

Ever since we first started, we have been driven to find the best solutions in everything we do. At the same time, we have been creating strong connections all over the world which have helped us establish our presence in the industry.

We strive for fun, elegance, and efficiency in everything we do. You can feel this in our relaxed, homelike working environment. We offer employment and seek to hire only the brightest, most driven, and most gifted minds around.

Currently, we are looking for an ambitious Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our team for full-time employment in our beautiful office in New Belgrade.

Here are a few reasons to join us:

• competitive salary and constant encouragement for your efforts and contribution (annual salary review);

• rapid growth (junior to CEO is a familiar journey for our company. We value business results and individuals eager to raise the bar. As an employer we provide supportive space to pursue your ideas);
• we are taking care of the overall well-being of our people by providing private health insurance and Fit Pass for all;
• work-life balance (every second-week Power-Up Friday with 4 hours of working time, 25 working days of paid vacation, flexible schedule);
• modern and comfy office (easy-to-get office in new business center with a spectacular view, free fruits, and snacks in the office, playroom with billiard, tennis table, and PlayStation);
• hybrid working model (up to 70 days per year of remote work), corporate laptop and equipment;
• we like to celebrate special days and have fun at our corporate events, and team-building activities, and we have special vouchers for our people's birthdays so you can enjoy your special day.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the automation approach within the CMS Platform product area, building reliable coverage for critical user journeys, backend workflows, and service integrations.
• Designing, maintaining, and evolving automation frameworks, reusable components, test data, and CI/CD integration.
• Combining manual, exploratory, and automated testing, progressively automating valuable regression coverage as product knowledge grows.
• Reviewing requirements early, identifying gaps and quality risks, and collaborating with developers and product stakeholders throughout the sprint.
• Defining appropriate coverage across UI/E2E, API, contract, component, integration, and unit testing levels.
• Validating business logic, data changes, and system behaviour using browser tools, APIs, databases, logs, network traffic, and other technical interfaces.
• Investigating failures and flaky tests, identifying whether the root cause lies in the application, automation, data, environment, or dependencies.
• Reviewing automation code, improving execution speed and reliability, and strengthening shared Quality Engineering standards.
• Mentoring other Quality Engineers and partnering with the QA Lead on the wider testing and automation strategy.

Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation, with substantial depth in UI/web automation, API/backend automation, or both.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for automation and the ability to design maintainable frameworks and test suites.
• Strong manual, functional, exploratory, and risk-based testing skills.
• Ability to translate requirements and business rules into effective positive, negative, boundary, failure, and edge-case coverage.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum delivery, and modern software development workflows.
• Confidence debugging complex failures using developer tools, APIs, logs, databases, network data, and observability tooling.
• Sound judgement about what to automate, when to automate it, and which testing level provides the best value.

Would be a plus:

• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript/JavaScript.

• SQL skills.

• Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems.

• Experience in integration or contract testing.

• Visual regression and cross-browser testing experience.

• Familiarity with message brokers, asynchronous processing, service mocking.

• Experience with accessibility testing or user-focused performance testing.

From our part, we are ready to provide you with our full and comprehensive support in order to successfully cope with this list of tasks. Our CMS department is waiting for you to become an indispensable part of it!