Software Test Automation Engineer

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description As a Software Test Automation Engineer within Test Automation and Robotics, you will help modernize and scale our automated testing capabilities. You will create and maintain automated tests for Avaloq banking solutions, APIs and web applications, using AllinWeb as a strategic tool alongside API simulation or mocking solutions and script-based testing frameworks.

Your key tasks

• Develop, maintain and execute automated test cases for projects, maintenance and emergency releases.
• Translate business use cases and manual test cases into reliable, reusable automation scripts.
• Automate functional, regression, integration, API and end-to-end test scenarios.
• Analyze test results, report and track defects, support root cause analysis and verify fixes.
• Maintain and improve automation frameworks, test data and reusable components.
• Work closely with Product Owners, developers, business analysts and internal or external stakeholders to define effective testing strategies.

Contribute to the adoption of AllinWeb, interface and future script-based testing capabilities.

Qualifications Must have

• 3 to 5 years of experience in software testing, including hands-on test automation.
• Experience in test case design and execution across functional, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Programming or scripting knowledge and a good understanding of object-oriented concepts.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman and knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to learn new tools, frameworks and banking functional areas.

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Experience with AllinWeb, or comparable automation tools.
• Knowledge of source version control and CI/CD practices.
• Banking knowledge in areas such as payments, onboarding, securities operations, trading, tax or regulatory reporting.
• Avaloq or Oracle database knowledge.

Additional Information We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.