Test Automation Engineer (m/f/d) – Platform & Data Services - Dresden (Hybrid)

Test Automation Engineer (m/f/d) – Platform & Data Services (
8DAX1 R&D SW Platform Core & Data Services)

Location: Dresden, Germany
Working Hours: 40 hours per week (Full-time)
Start Date: January 1, 2026
Contract Duration: Until December 31, 2027 (maximum 24 months)
Languages: Advanced German and Advanced English
Career Level: Experienced Professionals (Not suitable for career starters)
Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer (m/f/d) to join the R&D Software Platform – Core & Data Services team in Dresden. In this role, you will design, develop, and integrate automated test solutions to ensure the quality, performance, scalability, and security of platform services and APIs within a modern CI/CD environment.
This position is ideal for professionals with strong experience in test automation, API testing, distributed systems, and Kubernetes-based environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Automation: Design, develop, and execute automated tests including API, integration, functional, and end-to-end (E2E) tests to validate platform services and APIs with regard to functionality, scalability, performance, and security.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback.
• Cross-Platform Test Integration: Integrate automated tests into a cross-platform automation test suite, ensuring a uniform testing and reporting structure.
• Test Strategy & Planning: Contribute to the development of test strategies and test plans and collaborate closely with other platform teams to achieve a coherent and scalable test automation approach.
• Quality Assurance & Reporting: Support transparent test reporting and continuously improve overall test coverage across distributed systems.

Required Qualifications Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• ISTQB certification is required

Test Automation & Technical Experience

• Proven experience in the design, development, and implementation of automated tests and their integration into existing test environments and frameworks
• Strong experience with API testing, functional testing, and integration testing
• Experience testing complex, distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Ideally, experience with Kubernetes and container-based environments

Technical Skills

• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as:
  
  • Postman
  • Integrate
  • Swagger UI
  • RestAssured
  • JUnit
  • TestNG
  • Robot Framework
• Scripting experience with Python
• Expert-level knowledge of:
  
  • GitLab
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Optional / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience testing Identity Providers (e.g. Keycloak, Okta) and MFA solutions
• Experience testing Secret Stores / Vaults and certificate management
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues
• Experience testing workflow automation and orchestration
• Experience with cluster-capable, service-oriented architectures
• Experience testing modern web technologies
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger
• Experience with security testing and related test approaches
• Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and tools such as Cucumber