Senior Quality Engineer (Java Automation)

Join a forward-thinking engineering team driving quality excellence across complex, high-value financial platforms. As a Java-focused Quality Engineer, you’ll go beyond conventional testing by designing intelligent, automated test strategies that safeguard the integrity of critical systems like SAP and Treasury. You’ll embed assurance deep into CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools like Azure DevOps, Selenium, and REST-assured to validate everything from APIs to ledger workflows. Every sprint, you’ll play a hands-on role in shaping how quality is built, not bolted on, ensuring performance, compliance, and resilience standards stay flawless under real-world conditions.

This is a role for the curious and technically fearless. Someone who can read a Java stack trace as fluently as a business requirement, and who thrives on solving intricate testing challenges in data-heavy, regulated environments. You’ll partner with developers and product owners to push automation boundaries, transform manual bottlenecks into code-driven validation, and champion a “shift-left, code-first” approach to quality. If you’re passionate about precision, automation, and the craft of testing enterprise-grade Java applications, this is where you can turn testing into engineering mastery.

Accountability and Responsibility

• Designs and executes comprehensive test scenarios covering functional, integration, and regression testing across financial applications such as SAP and Treasury platforms. Ensures these reflect critical business logic including ledger integrity, FX handling, and compliance with SOX/IFRS standards.
• Works closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to refine testable user stories, ensuring acceptance criteria cover both functional and non-functional aspects, and proactively challenges ambiguity or inefficiencies in test scope.
• Builds and maintains robust test data and reusable artefacts for scenarios such as journal entries, GL reconciliation, and end-of-month processes, embedding these into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps to enable continuous testing.
• Drives root cause analysis of defects, champions risk-based test prioritisation, and identifies opportunities to replace manual testing with scalable automation to increase feedback speed and maintain sprint velocity.
• Actively participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to advocate for early quality input, align on coverage expectations, and foster a quality-first culture that includes security, accessibility, and usability considerations.

Knowledge and Education

• Holds ISTQB Foundation as a minimum; Advanced Test Analyst or equivalent certifications desirable.
• Qualification in IT Service Management (ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation) or demonstrable experience integrating QA practices into ITSM processes.
• Familiar with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), with practical awareness of how they influence quality standards and assurance planning.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of automation and non-functional testing concepts, including performance, accessibility, and shift-left/shift-right practices.
• Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and product-aligned teams, contributing to sprint-based delivery and continuous integration testing strategies.
• Proficient in test tooling and CI/CD frameworks including Azure DevOps, Selenium, Cypress, Jenkins, Git, and test management platforms such as TestRail or Zephyr.
• Familiarity with AI/ML use cases in quality engineering, including AI-assisted test case generation, defect clustering, and predictive analytics. including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory techniques.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain test scenarios, defects, and coverage to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Awareness of security, compliance, and resilience considerations such as OWASP Top 10, ISO 27001, GDPR, and DORA, with practical experience embedding these into quality practices.
• Understanding of the importance of data privacy, test data masking, and regulatory obligations. Has experience with data quality and synthetic data generation tools.
• Demonstrable experience in testing web-based and enterprise software applications developed in Java, JavaScript, or similar backend/frontend frameworks.
• Skilled in functional and integration testing of APIs, UI components, and service-based workflows, including RESTful interfaces and microservice architectures.
• Experience working with SaaS and PaaS environments, including deployment and validation in cloud platforms like Azure or AWS.
• Proficient in using test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, REST-assured, Postman) integrated with CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with ITSM-aligned QA practices and non-functional validation including accessibility, performance, and security testing across web applications.