Senior QA Engineer (Java/Python)

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About Us

At South Geeks, we connect top LATAM engineering talent with global organizations building meaningful, long-term products. We focus on high-impact work, strong technical environments, and creating spaces where professionals can grow, contribute, and thrive.

About the Client

Our client is a global nonprofit technology organization that operates large-scale, cloud-based genealogy platforms supporting millions of users worldwide. Their Developer Tools team provides the core infrastructure and services that enable engineering teams to build, test, and deploy software securely and reliably.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to support a Developer Tools team responsible for enhancing cloud infrastructure, expanding CI/CD capabilities, modernizing security controls, and improving overall platform reliability.

This role focuses on validating complex platform-level initiatives, including cloud resource provisioning workflows, CI/CD pipeline enhancements, credential and secret management migrations, operating system upgrades, and infrastructure modernization efforts. You will help ensure these changes are functionally correct, secure, performant and backward compatible for engineering teams that depend on them.

In addition, you will contribute to building consistent, repeatable QA practices and automation strategies that reduce release risk and shorten validation cycles.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute test strategies for cloud infrastructure and platform enhancements.

• Validate CI/CD pipelines, provisioning workflows, and environment management processes while integrating automated tests.

• Develop and maintain automated test suites across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end levels.

• Validate infrastructure-as-code changes and ensure safe deployments.

• Test integrations with AWS and third-party services.

• Provide clear defect reporting, quality metrics, and release-readiness insights.

• Contribute to scalable and repeatable QA practices for the development platform.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proficiency in Java and Maven, plus one scripting language (preferably Python).

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated tests using frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, pytest, or similar.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience testing systems built on AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, IAM (roles and policies), CodeBuild (or equivalent), and cloud-native secrets management.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) and validating infrastructure provisioning workflows.

• Experience testing CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, deploy stages, triggers, approvals, logs, and notifications.

• Working knowledge of Git-based workflows (branches, pull requests, merge policies).

• Understanding of artifact and image management concepts (build artifacts, container images, binary repositories such as Artifactory or equivalents).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in complex platform environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting security modernization or compliance-related initiatives.

• Familiarity with operating system image standardization or compute architecture updates.

• Experience working within platform, DevOps, or developer tools teams.

Our Team

We strive to create an inspiring and growth-oriented environment where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered. We promote both personal and professional development, with individualized support for your needs and goals. We aim to build a space where everyone can thrive.

What We Offer

• Long-term projects

• 100% remote work

• Payment in USD

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Work-from-home & training reimbursement

• English lessons

• Technical training

• Career coaching