Senior Banking QA Engineer - API & Automation

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking an experienced QA professional to lead testing efforts for digital banking platforms. The role emphasizes API, integration, and automation testing within secure banking environments.

You will collaborate across product, development, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases with thorough test coverage and regulatory adherence. Banking domain experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of QA experience, with 3+ years testing enterprise applications and APIs.
• Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Corporate Banking, Digital Banking, Payments, Lending, or FinTech domains.
• Strong understanding of API-driven architectures and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases for digital banking applications, APIs, microservices, and web/mobile channels.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, API, UAT, and end-to-end testing across banking platforms.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites to improve coverage and release quality.
• Validate REST APIs, microservices, event-driven integrations, and backend services.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, and DevOps teams throughout the SDLC.
• Participate in requirement reviews, sprint planning, defect triage, and release readiness assessments.
• Execute test automation within CI/CD pipelines and support shift-left quality practices.
• Ensure compliance with banking security, audit, performance, and regulatory requirements.
• Track, report, and manage defects through to resolution while ensuring quality gates are met.

Skills

Manual Testing

API Testing

Automation Testing

Postman

Selenium

CI/CD

BDD/SDD

Jenkins

Gherkin/Cucumber

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

SoapUI

Rest Assured

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

SonarQube

Job description

Halian is seeking an experienced QA professional to lead testing efforts for digital banking platforms. The role emphasizes API, integration, and automation testing within secure banking environments.

You will collaborate across product, development, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases with thorough test coverage and regulatory adherence. Banking domain experience is highly valued.