Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote Fintech Testing AI

Jobgether; España; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

Remote-friendly environment

Fintech product exposure

Modern tech stack

Distributed systems exposure

International team

Ownership culture

AI-assisted QA tools

Descripción de la vacante

Partner Company is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer based in Spain to own end-to-end quality for critical payment journeys. You will design API-first test strategies, build automated API/UI tests with Playwright and RestAssured, and collaborate with backend engineers to improve testability and acceptance criteria.

The role focuses on reliable, scalable testing across distributed systems and external financial integrations, with opportunities to leverage AI-assisted QA techniques in a

Formación

• Proven experience in QA engineering, test automation, or a closely related software quality role, with strong ownership of complex systems.
• Hands-on experience testing REST APIs, including HTTP, JSON, request/response validation, and API-driven workflows.
• Strong understanding of backend systems, distributed services, and software integration patterns.
• Practical experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, RestAssured, or similar tools.
• Ability to diagnose technical issues using application logs, databases, API traces, and other debugging tools.
• Understanding of asynchronous systems and transaction patterns, including callbacks, queues, polling, retries, and failure handling.
• Previous experience in payments, fintech, or another environment involving highly reliable transactional systems is strongly valued.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated quality checks into software delivery processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks beyond individual feature requirements.
• SQL and data-validation skills are an advantage.
• Experience with distributed systems is a plus.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering or AI-powered tools for QA and test automation is beneficial.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineering and product stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset and willingness to take ownership of quality improvements across the wider engineering lifecycle.

Responsabilidades

• Own end-to-end quality for critical payment journeys, including deposits, payouts, reconciliation, and other business-critical transaction scenarios.
• Design and execute API-first test strategies covering REST, JSON, HTTP, and complex transaction lifecycles.
• Build, maintain, and improve automated API and selective UI test suites using Playwright, RestAssured, or comparable frameworks.
• Develop reusable automation components such as API clients, test data builders, and supporting utilities.
• Test integrations with external providers, including payment processors and Open Banking services, with particular attention to asynchronous callbacks, polling, retries, and failure scenarios.
• Investigate production incidents, reproduce defects, analyze logs, database records, and API traces, and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to improve system testability and work with product teams to establish clear acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to release quality gates, regression testing strategies, smoke tests, and pre-release validation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify risks across distributed payment systems and proactively strengthen testing coverage, reliability, and engineering quality standards.
• Explore AI-assisted QA and automation techniques where they can improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Conocimientos

QA automation

Playwright

RestAssured

APIs testing

CI/CD

AI in QA

SQL

Distributed systems

Communication

Herramientas

Playwright

RestAssured

Descripción del empleo

Partner Company is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer based in Spain to own end-to-end quality for critical payment journeys. You will design API-first test strategies, build automated API/UI tests with Playwright and RestAssured, and collaborate with backend engineers to improve testability and acceptance criteria.

The role focuses on reliable, scalable testing across distributed systems and external financial integrations, with opportunities to leverage AI-assisted QA techniques in a