QA Engineer - Cloud Applications Team - Remote

Overview

HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform. Designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress, the HiveMQ MQTT platform is the proven enterprise standard and powers use cases in automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, transportation, and more. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and ZF choose HiveMQ to build smarter IoT projects, modernize factories, and create better customer experiences.

HiveMQ is a remote-first company headquartered in Landshut, Germany, with a US office. The last time we counted, we spoke 32 languages within our diverse team at HiveMQ. We are looking for innovative, motivated, and passionate individuals to join our rapidly growing company.

In Short

• Define and implement QA and quality strategies for our Cloud Managed services and products.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites - we have a high bias for automation.
• Ensure cloud scalability and reliability through stress, load or chaos testing of products or new features.
• Integrate testing systems through our existing development and product environments and CI using Github Actions.
• Identify, document, and prioritize defects, working closely with development teams involved or customer success team as needed.
• Collaborate with QA and other Engineers from our Core Product teams to improve our quality bar.
• Live a culture of teamwork, quality, growth, drive to action, and excellence.

Requirements

• Proficiency in test automation using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar frameworks. We use Cypress for end-to-end tests and Percy for visual regression testing.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-based testing strategies or test runners.
• Hands-on experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Some exposure to Testcontainers, Docker and IaC setups using Terraform.
• Strong skills in Java, JavaScript, Typescript and optionally other languages for test automation. Knowledge of Java/JVM.
• Experience with API testing and related tools.
• Familiarity with tools like JMeter, k6, or Gatling for performance testing.
• Experience testing SaaS applications across browsers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
• The ability to solve problems independently and are driven towards execution.
• A highly pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and the ability to work as a team.
• A good understanding of how agile software engineering using Kanban works.
• Excellent English communication skills and able to work in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

• Join a diverse team that speaks 32 languages.
• Work in a remote-first environment.
• Be part of a rapidly growing company.
• Collaborate with leading brands in the IoT space.
• Contribute to innovative projects in various industries.