Test Automation Engineer

Project

You will be involved in a greenfield financial project focused on building the STP Lending Manager application from scratch. The project is developed within a highly motivated, cross-functional product team working closely with business SMEs and developers. The environment promotes Agile delivery, short feedback loops, strong ownership, and high engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks based on BDD (Cucumber)
• Drive and advocate quality standards across all stages of the delivery lifecycle
• Collaborate closely with developers and Product Owner to ensure shared understanding of requirements and early defect detection
• Define and contribute to test strategies aligned with CI/CD pipelines to deliver quality at speed
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Java and Selenium/WebDriver
• Create and review Gherkin feature files, ensuring clarity, correctness, and business alignment
• Perform negative, exploratory, and regression testing
• Test REST APIs, Kafka event streams, and database persistence (JPA)
• Analyze logs using tools like Splunk and provide actionable insights to the team

Expected Competences and Knowledge

• Strong Java coding skills (preferably Java 21) for test automation
• Proven hands-on experience with Cucumber and BDD practices
• Solid understanding of API testing, Kafka, and database validation
• Expertise in test strategy, defect analysis, and testing complex distributed systems
• Experience working in Agile environments with close developer collaboration
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot)

Nice to Have

• Basic Docker skills for execution in containerized environments
• Understanding of Sonar for code quality insights
• Familiarity with Liquibase for DB change control

Technologies

• Java 21
• Selenium / WebDriver
• Cucumber (BDD)
• REST APIs
• Kafka
• JPA / relational databases
• Splunk
• CI/CD pipelines