QA Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer

Remote

This role is remote from anywhere in Europe, although we have a preference for Portugal, Ukraine, or Romania.

Payset, a UK-based online international payments solution authorized by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), offers multi-currency accounts and currency exchange to businesses worldwide.

We save clients time and money and open new opportunities by simplifying how they pay and get paid locally and internationally. Our mission is to foster enduring client relationships while refining our product technology and expanding into new markets.

If you have experience in fintech or a related field, we’d love to have you join our fast-growing company!

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer with strong skills in Playwright, Jest, and manual testing to ensure high-quality releases across our fintech platform. This role will involve a hybrid focus owning automation test suites while also conducting exploratory and manual testing to catch UI/UX issues before they reach our customers.

You will be a quality champion in the team, setting up best practices for E2E test automation, helping define acceptance criteria, and making sure every release is smooth, fast, and bug-free.

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end automated test suites using Playwright, and supporting frameworks.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and designers to define clear, testable requirements.
• Perform manual testing to detect UI inconsistencies, usability issues, and edge cases that automation might miss.
• Set up test environments, run regression suites, and ensure cross-browser and cross-device compatibility.
• Integrate automation tests into the CI/CD pipeline for fast feedback loops.
• Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps, screenshots, and logs.
• Monitor and maintain test stability, quickly identifying flaky or unreliable tests.
• Mentor team members on QA automation best practices.
• Continuously improve our QA processes, tooling, and test coverage.

• You have 3+ years in QA automation, with proven experience in an end-to-end testing Playwright framework.
• You are comfortable balancing manual and automated testing responsibilities.
• You have a sharp eye for UI/UX details and can spot issues others might miss.
• You are proactive and take ownership of ensuring quality at all stages of development.
• You have experience testing React and Node.js applications.
• You can design test plans, test cases, and testing strategies independently.
• You understand CI/CD, Git workflows, and modern development environments.
• Experience in fintech or regulated environments is a plus.

• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React.js, NodeJS, GraphQL, Cypress, Playwright, AWS, Docker.