Hybrid Backend QA Engineer – Automation & Reliability

Nordea; Oulu; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea in Oulu is seeking an experienced Backend Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Digital Technology Engineering team. In this hybrid role, you will drive quality across backend services, implement automated API tests, and support release activities.

You will collaborate with developers and business experts, work with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and REST Assured, and use Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk to monitor production behaviour.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and test automation with focus on backend.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and REST Assured.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality practices in daily work – including test automation, validation strategies, and engineering best practices
• Design, implement, and maintain automated API test suites using REST Assured and Java-based testing frameworks
• Take responsibility for quality assurance and reliability of backend services, ensuring high standards across new features and existing solutions
• Drive release processes and support release activities.
• Monitor service health and performance using tools such as Grafana and Prometheus, proactively identifying issues and ensuring system stability
• Analyse logs and production behaviour in tools like Splunk to troubleshoot incidents, identify patterns, and support data-driven improvements
• Contribute to development activities (design, implementation, and maintenance of microservices) in a modern architecture integrating with legacy systems, AWS/GCP, databases, and third-party providers as part of the team, with a strong focus on quality and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with backend and front-end developers and business experts to ensure robust, scalable, and well-tested solutions

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

REST Assured

Git

Monitoring tools

Tools

Jenkins

AWS

GCP

Job description

Nordea in Oulu is seeking an experienced Backend Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Digital Technology Engineering team. In this hybrid role, you will drive quality across backend services, implement automated API tests, and support release activities.

You will collaborate with developers and business experts, work with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and REST Assured, and use Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk to monitor production behaviour.