Automation Lead: Cloud-Native FinTech QA & SDET

Referment; West of England; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 95.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Referment is partnering with a financial services technology company to build cloud-native reconciliation and payments platforms. This role is hands-on, automation-focused, and you will own automated test suites across APIs, services and a React front end, integrating them into CI/CD for fast feedback.

You will lead test frameworks, drive performance and load testing, review code for quality, mentor engineers, and ensure security and data privacy with PCI and ISO 27001 considerations.

Competenze

• Significant commercial experience as QA, test automation or SDET.
• Strong programming skills for test automation in Kotlin, Java or TypeScript.
• Hands-on API and UI automation with Cypress or Playwright.
• Experience testing Spring Boot microservices with JUnit/Testcontainers.
• Performance and load testing with Gatling, k6 or JMeter.
• CI/CD integration and testing on Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Good SQL skills, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Confidence using AI-assisted testing tools.
• Knowledge of test pyramid, BDD/TDD and Agile/Lean.
• Excellent communication of risk/quality to tech and non-tech audiences.

Mansioni

• Design, build and own automated test suites across APIs, services and front end.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD for fast feedback.
• Own test automation frameworks and tooling; lead performance/load testing.
• Review PRs with a quality lens; promote AI testing tools.
• Coach engineers on quality; participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Consider security and data privacy; align with PCI/ISO27001.
• Support releases and triage customer-reported issues.
• Conduct targeted exploratory testing on high-risk changes.

Conoscenze

QA Engineer

SDET

Automation ownership

Agile testing

API automation

Strumenti

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Testcontainers

Gatling

k6

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Descrizione del lavoro

Referment is partnering with a financial services technology company to build cloud-native reconciliation and payments platforms. This role is hands-on, automation-focused, and you will own automated test suites across APIs, services and a React front end, integrating them into CI/CD for fast feedback.

You will lead test frameworks, drive performance and load testing, review code for quality, mentor engineers, and ensure security and data privacy with PCI and ISO 27001 considerations.