The role involves defining and evolving test automation strategies, designing scalable automation frameworks for UI and API testing, integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating within an international, cross-country setup.
Senior Automation Engineer
Your responsibilities
- Define and evolve the team's test automation strategy, including roadmap, tooling, framework architecture, and quality gates.
- Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve scalable automation frameworks for UI and API testing.
- Partner with Functional SMEs to define quality approaches, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test coverage.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate closely with development and infrastructure teams.
- Run automation feasibility assessments and recommend the right level of automation per feature.
- Improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, and diagnostics in a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ensure proper handling of test data dependencies, environments, and cross-system integration flows.
- Collaborate effectively in an international, cross-country setup and contribute to QA/test automation communities.
Our requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation (UI and API: REST/SOAP).
- 5+ years of experience with .NET (preferred) or Java.
- Practical experience with Playwright or Selenium.
- Strong understanding of test automation framework design and maintainable architecture patterns.
- Experience with SQL and data validation for automated tests.
- Experience with CI/CD integration (e.g., Bamboo/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar).
- Experience with Git-based workflows (Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab).
- Experience working with Jira in agile delivery environments.
- Strong leadership, mentoring/coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Self-driven, proactive, and able to work independently.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
- Experience in banking/financial services domain.
- Experience with Temenos T24.
- Experience working in large, distributed enterprise test environments.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for test script generation, refactoring, and documentation.
- Exposure to LLM-based test automation techniques (e.g., generating locators, test data, or assertions from requirements).