QA engineer (auto) for banking platforms

Hyperlayer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

25 days annual leave + birthday off +

Critical illness and life insurance

AXA PPP Health Insurance

Cycle-to-work

Referral bonus

Workplace nursery

Job summary

Hyperlayer is seeking an experienced test automation leader to own and evolve our automation frameworks, ensuring speed, reliability and API-first testing for fintech-scale payment flows.

You will mentor engineers, drive contract testing with Pact, and partner with Product and Implementation teams to reflect real client usage while advancing AI-assisted testing. This role is based in London with a hybrid office pattern.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in test automation and quality engineering, with leadership experience.
• Proven track record building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong API automation with REST Assured or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve test automation frameworks, ensuring maintainability and speed.
• Design new data-driven test harnesses and non-functional testing tooling.
• Set up contract testing with Pact, including CI/CD gates.
• Lead testing standards and review designs for quality engineers.
• Collaborate with product and client implementation to reflect real payment flows.
• Drive down flakiness with measurable suite health metrics.
• Evaluate and adopt AI tools for testing; mentor testers moving to automation.

Skills

Test automation leadership

Automation framework design

API automation

Pact contract testing

CI/CD pipelines

Java / JVM

Fintech domain experience

Team collaboration without authority

Tools

REST Assured

Postman/Newman

Pact / PactFlow

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Описание:

Hyperlayer is the intelligent banking platform built for the agentic economy: the financial control layer that sits above banks' existing cores, enabling next-generation Smart Accounts, without ripping anything out. From a single integration, we give financial institutions a secure rules and orchestration engine that lets them design, launch and scale hyper-personalised products in weeks while preserving stability, compliance and control.

Задачи:

Own our test automation frameworks and tooling, keeping them maintainable, fast and trusted by the engineers who depend on them. Design and build new frameworks where gaps exist, such as data-driven test harnesses and non-functional testing tooling. Set up and own contract testing across services with Pact (Pact JVM, Pact Broker or PactFlow), including provider verification and can-i-deploy gates in CI/CD. Decide which testing runs at each pipeline and certification stage, balancing coverage, speed and flake tolerance. Set framework standards and conventions, and review designs and code so pod quality engineers follow them. Partner with engineering leads on test architecture for new services, so quality is designed in rather than bolted on. Work with Product and Client Implementation so what we test reflects what clients actually do, especially for payment flows. Drive down flakiness and runtime, with clear metrics on suite health, coverage and reliability. Lead how we use AI in testing: evaluate tools, set guardrails and roll out what works. Raise the team's technical bar through pairing, code review and training, including helping manual testers grow into automation engineers.

Требования:

• 8+ years in test automation and quality engineering, including time as a technical lead or principal-level engineer.
• A clear track record of building and evolving automation frameworks from scratch, not just maintaining someone else's.
• Deep API automation expertise with REST Assured (or equivalent) and Postman/Newman.
• Hands-on experience setting up contract testing with Pact or similar, including a broker, provider verification and CI/CD gates.
• Strong Java skills (or another JVM language, or Golang), writing production-quality framework code.
• Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines, test environments and test data, and how to keep large suites fast and reliable.
• Direct experience in fintech, payments or another regulated financial services environment.
• Comfortable setting standards, pushing back on shortcuts and bringing the rest of the team along without direct authority.
• Willing and able to be in our London office four days per week.
• Будет плюсом:
  • Non-functional testing experience: performance (Gatling, JMeter, k6), fuzz and security testing
  • UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress) where it complements an API-first strategy
  • Experience working with third-party clients or vendor QA teams
  • Familiarity with payment schemes, ISO 20022, card processing or open banking
  • Practical experience using AI tools in testing, including their limits

Условия:

• A performance-based employee bonus scheme.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a day off on your birthday, and an additional day per year of tenure to a maximum of 30.
• Critical illness and life insurance cover.
• AXA PPP Health Insurance, including gym offers.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Referral bonus scheme.
• Workplace nursery scheme.