Lead API Automation Engineer for Payments FinTech

Rothstein Recruitment; England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rothstein Recruitment is seeking a QA Lead FinTech Payments automation expert to own API-focused testing frameworks and lead a team of automation engineers. You will extend frameworks using REST Assured, Postman/Newman and internal tooling while building contract-testing, data-driven and performance-testing capabilities.

The role requires deep API automation knowledge, strong Java/JVM or Golang coding ability, and experience embedding tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Automation Testing with ownership of frameworks
• Proven leadership of QA teams in FinTech/payments
• Experience embedding tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Familiar with AI testing tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Own the API-focused automation strategy.
• Lead a team of 6 QA engineers.
• Extend frameworks using REST Assured, Postman/Newman, and internal tooling.
• Build contract-testing, data-driven and performance-testing frameworks.
• Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish engineering standards through reviews, pairing and mentoring.
• Build automation frameworks from scratch.
• Deep API automation and contract-testing knowledge.
• Strong Java/JVM or Golang coding ability.
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or equivalents.

Skills

Automation Testing

API Automation

Java/JVM

Golang

CI/CD

Mentoring

AI tools usage

Tools

REST Assured

Postman/Newman

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

JMeter

Gatling

k6

Job description

Rothstein Recruitment is seeking a QA Lead FinTech Payments automation expert to own API-focused testing frameworks and lead a team of automation engineers. You will extend frameworks using REST Assured, Postman/Newman and internal tooling while building contract-testing, data-driven and performance-testing capabilities.

The role requires deep API automation knowledge, strong Java/JVM or Golang coding ability, and experience embedding tests into CI/CD pipelines.