QA Automation Engineer

Client: Top 10 Multinational Bank in Romania

Office Location: Bucharest

Contract Duration: At least 12 months

Project No.: 011402

General

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to ensure reliable banking reporting, billing and payment-fee services through strong automation, integration testing and quality ownership.

Responsibilities/Activities

• Own QA activities for services developed and maintained within an Agile banking squad.
• Clarify requirements with the squad and translate them into test plans, estimates and high-coverage test scenarios.
• Design, write, execute, maintain and refactor manual and automated test cases.
• Develop and maintain automated tests and automation frameworks, mainly using Java-based technologies.
• Test API, web and service-to-service integrations, including synchronous and asynchronous communication flows.
• Perform regression testing using Cucumber, Selenium and/or Playwright, Rest Assured, Kafka/MQ integrations and manual testing where appropriate.
• Validate and certify features before release and provide clear quality and risk assessments to stakeholders.
• Investigate defects, analyse logs, perform root-cause analysis and track issues through resolution.
• Conduct peer reviews for test cases, test scenarios and automation scripts.
• Research, recommend and implement QA tools that increase automation coverage and testing efficiency.
• Maintain clear documentation and traceability for test cases, test execution and results.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, cross-team collaboration and feature demonstrations.

Requirements

Technical

• At least 5 years of Quality Assurance experience, with hands-on test automation responsibilities.
• Strong experience with Java for automated testing and a good understanding of OOP concepts.
• Hands-on API and web testing experience.
• Experience with Cucumber and automated regression testing.
• Experience with Selenium and/or Playwright for UI automation.
• Experience with Rest Assured for API test automation.
• Working knowledge of Spring / Spring Boot, JUnit and Maven in test automation environments.
• Applied experience with inter-service communication mechanisms such as HTTP/HTTPS, message queues and event streaming.
• Experience testing or troubleshooting Kafka and/or MQ-based integrations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including log investigation and root-cause analysis.
• Good test case design, test planning and test management skills.
• Ability to develop, maintain and extend automation frameworks and automated test coverage.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Others

• Proficiency in English
• Very good communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative squad.
• Self-driven, highly motivated and genuinely interested in software quality and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable discussing quality levels, delivery risks and test estimates with technical and business stakeholders.
• Open to giving and receiving feedback and improving team processes through Agile ceremonies and team discussions.
• Good understanding of end-to-end software delivery in Agile/Scrum environments.

Nice to have requirements

• Hands-on TypeScript experience for Playwright-based automation.
• Experience working in banking, payments, reporting, billing or fee-processing systems.
• Experience assessing release readiness and presenting feature demonstrations to internal customers or cross-team stakeholders.
• ISTQB certification