Senior QA Automation Engineer | Java, API & Playwright
I'm recruiting for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a globally recognised financial markets and infrastructure organisation, working across business-critical FX trading applications.
This is a hands-on automation role covering REST APIs and React-based user interfaces. You'll design and maintain robust frameworks, increase regression coverage and integrate automated testing into modern CI/CD pipelines. The work includes complex FX trading workflows, matching systems and new API/UI components.
Key requirements:
- Strong Java automation experience
- REST API automation using RestAssured or equivalent
- UI automation using Playwright with Java
- TestNG or JUnit and Maven or Gradle
- CI/CD experience with GitLab or GitHub Actions
- experience building and maintaining automation frameworks
- Strong knowledge of JSON, XML, HTTP and request/response validation
- Comfortable deriving test scenarios from complex requirements
- experience within FX, trading, financial markets or market infrastructure would be highly beneficial. Exposure to JMeter, AI-assisted testing, GitHub Copilot, Swagger/OpenAPI, observability or accessibility testing would also be advantageous.
Contract details:
Initial 6-month contract with the intention to convert permanently
Inside IR35
Three days per week onsite in London
No sponsorship available
If you're a Senior automation engineer who enjoys building frameworks and working on complex, business-critical systems, please get in touch.