AVP QA Automation Engineer – Digital Assets

State Street; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work-life support

Paid volunteer days

Vibrant employee networks

Job summary

State Street is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our Digital Asset development team in London. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks and suites for mission-critical digital asset platforms within a regulated financial services environment.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, scalable, and secure product delivery, covering API/back-end testing, data integrity checks, and automation-first testing strategies

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a QA Automation Engineer within financial services or other regulated environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation for APIs and backend services (e.g. REST APIs, service-to-service integrations).
• Solid understanding of QA practices across the full SDLC, including Agile delivery models and automation-first testing strategies.
• Experience validating data accuracy, integrity, and consistency, particularly in systems handling financial or transactional data.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively with developers and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for digital asset platforms, with a strong focus on API and backend testing
• Create and execute automated test suites covering digital asset workflows, including custody events, token lifecycle actions, transfers, settlements, and reporting
• Validate data integrity and reconciliation across digital and traditional systems, ensuring consistency between on‑chain/off‑chain records and downstream financial systems
• Collaborate closely with developers and product teams, contributing to testability, acceptance criteria, and automation‑ready designs
• Build and maintain integration and regression test coverage for microservices‑based platforms deployed in containerized environments
• Support non‑functional testing relevant to financial services, including performance, resilience, and negative/error scenarios
• Participate in defect triage and root‑cause analysis, working with engineering teams to identify issues and prevent recurrence
• Ensure testing approaches align with enterprise SDLC, risk, and compliance expectations, including evidence capture for audits and control reviews

Skills

QA Automation

API testing

Back-end testing

SDLC & Agile

Data integrity

Tools

REST APIs

Service-to-service

Job description

State Street is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our Digital Asset development team in London. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks and suites for mission-critical digital asset platforms within a regulated financial services environment.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, scalable, and secure product delivery, covering API/back-end testing, data integrity checks, and automation-first testing strategies