QA Automation Engineer – Fintech, Hybrid Cheltenham

Finova; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance

Life assurance & income protection

Family friendly policies

Work from anywhere

Flexible holiday package

Company pension scheme

Employee assistance programme

Electric car scheme

Health cash plan

Gym discounts

Perks that matter

Job summary

Finova is hiring a Quality Engineer to embed shift-left quality practices and scale automated UI/API testing across mortgage processing and cloud microservices. You will design, execute, and maintain automation frameworks, integrate tests into modern CI/CD pipelines, and balance automation with exploratory testing in an agile squad.

You will work with Product Managers, Analysts and Engineers, applying BDD scenarios and ensuring robust acceptance criteria across complex systems.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of Quality/Test Engineering experience in an agile SaaS/fintech environment.
• Hands-on automation experience building or maintaining scalable UI and API test frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, or REST Assured.
• Strong API validation and backend data inspection using SQL, XML, and JSON data structures.
• Knowledge of Git, branching, and integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience writing BDD/scenario-based acceptance criteria and participating in sprint planning.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain scalable UI and API automated test scripts with Playwright or Cypress.
• Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines and monitor regression health and reporting.
• Perform thorough functional, integration, and non-functional testing across cloud-based microservices and REST APIs.
• Collaborate with Analysts and Engineers to review requirements and build BDD scenarios.
• Conduct exploratory testing to validate complex mortgage processing logic and data integrity.

Skills

Quality testing

Automation frameworks

API validation

CI/CD

BDD practices

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Postman/SoapUI

Git

Job description

Finova is hiring a Quality Engineer to embed shift-left quality practices and scale automated UI/API testing across mortgage processing and cloud microservices. You will design, execute, and maintain automation frameworks, integrate tests into modern CI/CD pipelines, and balance automation with exploratory testing in an agile squad.

You will work with Product Managers, Analysts and Engineers, applying BDD scenarios and ensuring robust acceptance criteria across complex systems.