Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by IBU
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of QA Automation Engineer involves designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks for digital asset platforms within a regulated financial services environment. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure the development of robust and secure digital asset products. The engineer will focus on API and backend testing, data integrity validation, and support for non-functional testing. This hands-on role is critical for ensuring quality and compliance in the delivery of digital asset solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for digital asset platforms, focusing on API and backend testing.
- Create and execute automated test suites covering digital asset workflows, including custody events, token lifecycle actions, transfers, settlements, and reporting.
- Validate data integrity and reconciliation across digital and traditional systems.
- Collaborate closely with developers and product teams to contribute to testability and automation-ready designs.
- Build and maintain integration and regression test coverage for microservices-based platforms.
- Support non-functional testing relevant to financial services, including performance and resilience testing.
- Participate in defect triage and root cause analysis with engineering teams.
- Ensure testing approaches align with enterprise SDLC, risk, and compliance expectations.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a QA Automation Engineer within financial services or regulated environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with test automation for APIs and backend services.
- Solid understanding of QA practices across the full SDLC, including Agile delivery models.
- Experience validating data accuracy, integrity, and consistency in financial systems.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Good collaboration skills with developers and product stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of digital asset concepts, such as custody and tokenization.
- Experience testing digital asset or blockchain-adjacent platforms.
- Familiarity with containerized or microservices-based platforms.
- Experience with performance and resilience testing for APIs.
- Understanding of risk, controls, and audit requirements in financial services technology.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
JOB DETAILS:
Role: QA Automation Engineer
Location: London, UK (Hybrid)
Type of Hiring: Contract
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our Digital Asset development team. This is a hands on, quality engineering role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites for mission critical digital asset platforms within a regulated financial services environment. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build robust, scalable, and secure digital asset products that meet our business and technical requirements.
Role Description
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for digital asset platforms, with a strong focus on API and backend testing
- Create and execute automated test suites covering digital asset workflows, including custody events, token lifecycle actions, transfers, settlements, and reporting
- Validate data integrity and reconciliation across digital and traditional systems, ensuring consistency between on chain/off chain records and downstream financial systems
- Collaborate closely with developers and product teams, contributing to testability, acceptance criteria, and automation ready designs
- Build and maintain integration and regression test coverage for microservices based platforms deployed in containerized environments
- Support non functional testing relevant to financial services, including performance, resilience, and negative/error scenarios
- Participate in defect triage and root cause analysis, working with engineering teams to identify issues and prevent recurrence
- Ensure testing approaches align with enterprise SDLC, risk, and compliance expectations, including evidence capture for audits and control reviews
Core/Must have skills
- Proven experience as a QA Automation Engineer within financial services or other regulated environments
- Strong hands on experience with test automation for APIs and backend services (e.g. REST APIs, service to service integrations)
- Solid understanding of QA practices across the full SDLC, including Agile delivery models and automation first testing strategies
- Experience validating data accuracy, integrity, and consistency, particularly in systems handling financial or transactional data
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively with developers and product stakeholders
Good to have skills
- Working knowledge of digital asset concepts, such as custody, tokenization, wallets, or blockchain based transaction flows
- Experience testing digital asset or blockchain adjacent platforms, including on chain/off chain integration points
- Exposure to event driven or streaming architectures used for digital asset data distribution and reporting
- Familiarity with containerized or microservices based platforms, and testing services deployed in Kubernetes environments
- Experience with performance and resilience testing for APIs supporting high value or time sensitive transactions
- Understanding of risk, controls, and audit requirements in financial services technology