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Tricentis

Tricentis

Software Engineering
Brno, Czechia
Posted on Jun 19, 2025

Would you like to work on a product that increases software testing efficiency? Join our growing engineering team in Prague and help us bring qTest to the next level.

What is qTest?

It is a scalable test management and orchestration solution that supports manual, exploratory, and automated testing.

Why join our team?

· Innovation Culture: Contribute your ideas to enhance products like qTest and tackle evolving testing challenges.

· Global Exposure: Work with diverse clients worldwide, expanding your cultural understanding and professional experience.

· Career Growth: Benefit from training, certifications, and continuous learning to stay ahead in your field.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the teams from technical perspective to design and develop a fit for purpose solution

  • Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and enforce coding standards and best practices.

  • Collaborate with Product Managers, DevOps, and QA teams to define technical requirements and delivery timelines.

  • Drive continuous improvement through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.

  • Participate in system design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.

  • Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high system reliability.

  • Continuously educate yourself and others on latest technologies, patterns, and practices

  • Collaborate across teams to learn and grow together

  • Guide less experienced engineers in solving technical problems

  • Rapidly spike different solution approaches for difficult engineering problems

  • Assess complexity and estimate effort of new requirements

  • Break down complex requirements into meaningful increments

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in a lead or senior role.

  • Strong proficiency in Java, including frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RESTful APIs.

  • · Experience in test automation (e.g. with JUnit)

  • · Experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, query optimization, and stored procedures.

  • Experience with developing cloud services (ideally experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture)

  • Experience working in and succeeding as agile development team.

  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Github Actions or AWS CodePipeline.

  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

  • Be comfortable with change. Sometimes we will need to pivot and get back to the drawing board.

  • Demonstrate a proactive approach: you exhibit a willingness to embrace new technologies, libraries, and patterns swiftly, thereby enhancing productivity when tackling any given task

If you’ve got some of the following, even better:

· Experience with DevOps pipelines

· Experience with Cloud Operations (monitoring, observability, logging)

· Experience with modern frontend development frameworks (e.g. Vue, React, Angular)

Tricentis Core Values:

Knowing what we need to achieve and how to achieve it is important. Tricentis core values define our ways of working and the behaviors we model that create an enjoyable and successful Tricentis life.

· Demonstrate Self-Awareness: Own your strengths and limitations.

· Finish What We Start: Do what we say we are going to do.

· Move Fast: Create momentum and efficiency.

· Run Towards Change: Challenge the status quo.

· Serve Our Customers & Communities: Create a positive experience with each interaction.

· Solve Problems Together: We win or lose as one team.

· Think Big & Believe: Set extraordinary goals and believe you can achieve them.