Upwind Security
Senior QA Engineer
Senior QA Engineer at Upwind Security (cloud security platform) leading test strategy across Belfast engineering teams in a hybrid role (3 days onsite). Hands-on work building test frameworks and writing test code for Golang/Java backend services and React TS front-end, across distributed cloud scanning systems on AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, and various databases and message brokers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- BSc in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years in software testing, quality engineering or SDET, including 2+ years leading test strategy for a team or product area
- 2+ years of browser end-to-end testing experience (e.g. Playwright, Cypress)
- Strong programming skills in at least one high-level language (ideally Golang, Java or TypeScript)
- Proven experience standing up a test automation framework from scratch and maintaining it as product and team grew
- Experience testing backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC or event-driven), including integration and contract testing
- Experience with CI/CD and running tests in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with cloud platforms and products (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with microservices architecture and data-intensive systems (databases, event and messaging systems)
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of teaching testing practice and influencing teams you don't manage
Nice to have
- Experience with performance or load testing tools (e.g. k6, Gatling, JMeter)
- Background in cybersecurity, cloud security or testing detection systems
Full description
Senior QA Engineer - Job DescriptionLocation: Belfast, Northern Ireland · Full-timeAbout The PositionUpwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform that leverages runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks, providing precise insights and efficient cloud security management. Unlike traditional tools, Upwind uses runtime data proactively for risk prioritization and posture insights, ensuring teams focus on what truly matters. With industry-leading efficiency and eBPF-powered sensors, Upwind delivers comprehensive capabilities, including agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security. From misconfigurations to malware defense, Upwind ensures end-to-end, cost-effective cloud infrastructure protection. At Upwind, you'll have the opportunity to think creatively, explore new ideas, and use your skills to make a meaningful impact on our growth.We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to lead testing across several of our engineering teams in Belfast. This is a hands-on engineering role: writes test code every week, the person in it builds and maintains test frameworks, and sets the standard for how the teams around them test their own work. Spanning back-end services in Golang and Java and front-end applications in React TS, the teams build distributed scanning systems across all major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle), running on Kubernetes, Docker, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ, and more.Responsibilities
- Designing, building and maintaining test frameworks and tooling for services, APIs and the user interface, and keeping them fast, reliable and easy for engineers to extend
- Working with teams to create test strategies and deciding what is tested at which level (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) so that most coverage sits below the user interface
- Integrating automated tests into continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as quality gates, and treating flaky or slow tests as defects to be fixed
- Advocating for testing best practice, and writing the standards, examples and documentation that teams adopt as their default
- Teaching engineers testing concepts, frameworks and techniques through pairing, code review, workshops and written guides
- Reviewing test code and production code with a testing lens, and giving clear, constructive feedback that raises the quality of both
- Working with engineers to make services testable in isolation: interface contracts, test data, ephemeral environments and known-correct expected results
- Building test data sets and cloud test environments that let us verify the accuracy of security findings, not only that the code runs
- Contributing to performance, load and reliability testing, and helping teams define measurable quality targets