Senior QA Automation Engineer
Pubblicato il 14-10-2026 - MariaDB in Italia
Remote - Bulgaria; Sofia, Bulgaria - Office
About MariaDB
MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you’re checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used everyday. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
The Role
We’re looking for an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET to join theGridGain Core QA Team and help drive the quality, reliability, and performance of our distributed database platform.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests and support frameworks for functional and performance testing;
- Participate in release testing activities and contribute to improving the release validation process;
- Validate new product features, bug fixes,
and performance improvements;
- Investigate complex issues involving distributed transactions, replication, networking, storage, and cluster management;
- Design and implement automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve team productivity.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance and test automation, or software engineering.
- Strong Java programming skills and knowledge of the Java ecosystem;
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests and frameworks.
- Experience testing distributed or backend systems;
- Solid understanding of at least three of:
- Multithreading;
- Concurrency;
- Networking;
- Distributed systems concepts;
- Transactions;
- Consistency models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with NoSQL and/or distributed databases, especially Apache Ignite or GridGain;
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes;
- Experien