QA Automation Tester
Posted 1 day ago by Ampstek
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The QA Automation Tester role involves designing, developing, and executing automated test cases for APIs and backend services within financial services applications. The position requires collaboration with developers during sprint cycles and contributions to CI/CD pipelines, ensuring production readiness through various testing methodologies. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in QA automation within regulated environments and a solid understanding of QA practices across the software development lifecycle. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are essential for documenting test results and defects effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and execute automated test cases for APIs and backend services supporting financial services applications.
- Create and maintain test artefacts including test plans, test cases, and test execution evidence in line with enterprise QA processes.
- Perform functional, integration, and regression testing to validate service behaviour, error handling, and edge cases.
- Validate data accuracy and integrity across system boundaries, ensuring consistent results for financial and transactional data.
- Work closely with developers during sprint cycles to clarify acceptance criteria, identify defects early, and support defect triage and resolution.
- Contribute automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support test execution as part of build and release processes.
- Support production readiness activities, including smoke testing, release validation, and documentation required for go live approvals.
Key Skills:
- Hands on experience as a QA Automation Engineer or QA Engineer in financial services or other regulated environments.
- Experience testing REST APIs and backend services, including request/response validation and negative/error scenarios.
- Working knowledge of test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., API automation, backend test frameworks, or UI automation where applicable).
- Understanding of QA practices across the SDLC, including Agile delivery, defect management, and regression testing.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to clearly document test results and defects.
- Exposure to microservices or containerized applications, and testing services deployed in cloud based environments.
- Experience contributing automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working alongside DevOps teams.
- Familiarity with non functional testing concepts such as performance, resilience, and reliability in financial systems.
- Digital asset knowledge: awareness of concepts such as custody, tokenization, wallets, or blockchain adjacent workflows sufficient to understand domain terminology and test scenarios.
- Experience working with enterprise tooling for test management, documentation, and collaboration (e.g., Jira based workflows).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Role Description
- Design, develop, and execute automated test cases for APIs and backend services supporting financial services applications.
- Create and maintain test artefacts including test plans, test cases, and test execution evidence in line with enterprise QA processes.
- Perform functional, integration, and regression testing to validate service behaviour, error handling, and edge cases.
- Validate data accuracy and integrity across system boundaries, ensuring consistent results for financial and transactional data.
- Work closely with developers during sprint cycles to clarify acceptance criteria, identify defects early, and support defect triage and resolution.
- Contribute automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support test execution as part of build and release processes.
- Support production readiness activities, including smoke testing, release validation, and documentation required for go live approvals.
Core/Must have skills
- Hands on experience as a QA Automation Engineer or QA Engineer in financial services or other regulated environments.
- Experience testing REST APIs and backend services, including request/response validation and negative/error scenarios.
- Working knowledge of test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., API automation, backend test frameworks, or UI automation where applicable).
- Understanding of QA practices across the SDLC, including Agile delivery, defect management, and regression testing.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to clearly document test results and defects.
Good to have skills
- Exposure to microservices or containerized applications, and testing services deployed in cloud based environments.
- Experience contributing automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working alongside DevOps teams.
- Familiarity with non functional testing concepts such as performance, resilience, and reliability in financial systems.
- Digital asset knowledge: awareness of concepts such as custody, tokenization, wallets, or blockchain adjacent workflows sufficient to understand domain terminology and test scenarios.
- Experience working with enterprise tooling for test management, documentation, and collaboration (e.g., Jira based workflows).