QA Automation Engineer

Working pattern: Hybrid, 2–3 days per week in office

We’re supporting a financial services organisation undergoing major platform modernisation and are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join a team building a new core ledger and billing platform.

This is a hands‑on automation role suited to someone who enjoys testing complex, business‑critical systems where correctness matters. The role spans backend services, APIs, event flows, and frontend applications, with a strong focus on automation, regression coverage, and quality engineering best practice.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in fast‑moving engineering teams, working closely with developers and product stakeholders, and building high‑value automation that keeps pace with modern delivery.

• Own and evolve automated testing across unit, integration, contract, end‑to‑end, and UI layers
• Build automation coverage for backend services, APIs, workflows, event‑driven components, and frontend applications
• Design robust test scenarios covering edge cases, exception handling, concurrency, and regression risk
• Create and maintain reusable test data, environments, and scenario framework
• Support contract testing across multiple systems and downstream consumers
• Build quality gates within CI/CD pipelines and improve reliability of automated suites
• Partner with engineers early in the lifecycle to review designs, shape test plans, and shift left, support defect analysis, triage, and continuous improvement of testing practices
• Help improve overall testing maturity and contribute to scalable quality engineering approaches
• Use AI‑enabled tooling pragmatically to accelerate test creation, coverage analysis, and troubleshooting while maintaining engineering judgment

• Strong experience in QA automation, SDET, or software test engineering
• Proven background testing both backend services and modern web applications
• Strong programming capability in Python
• Good experience with modern UI test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
• Experience with backend/API testing and integration testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Git Hub Actions
• Experience working in cloud‑based engineering environments
• Strong instinct for edge cases, race conditions, test reliability, and regression risk
• Excellent written communication and collaboration skills
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and product stakeholders in agile delivery
• Experience testing financial systems, billing platforms, ledger platforms, payment systems, or other high‑integrity transactional products
• Exposure to React frontends
• Familiarity with tools such as Cucumber
• Experience with SQL and validating data across relational systems
• Experience with performance or load testing
• Experience using AI coding or testing tools in day‑to‑day engineering workflows
• Test architecture or broader quality strategy experience