Senior QA Engineer - Automation Lead for Cloud Fintech

Referment; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking a seasoned QA automation/SDET engineer to own test automation for a cloud-native financial services product. You’ll design, build and own automated tests for APIs, services, and a React frontend, integrating them into CI/CD for fast feedback.

You’ll lead performance, load and scalability testing, review PRs for quality, and mentor engineers in testing. Apply AI-assisted testing tools while upholding security and privacy standards such as PCI and ISO 27001.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience as a QA, test automation or SDET engineer owning test automation for a product or team.
• Strong programming skills for test automation in Kotlin, Java or TypeScript, with confidence reading production code.
• Hands-on API and UI automation using modern tools such as Cypress or Playwright.
• Experience testing Spring Boot microservices, including integration and contract testing with tools such as JUnit and Testcontainers.
• Proven performance and load testing with tools such as Gatling, k6 or JMeter, and analysis using monitoring and observability tools.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD and testing applications on Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the team’s test automation framework and tooling for fast, stable tests.
• Design, build and maintain automated tests across APIs, services and a React front end.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast feedback on changes.
• Lead performance, load and scalability testing and resolve bottlenecks with engineers.
• Review PRs with a quality lens and coach engineers in testing practices.

Skills

QA automation

SDET

Test automation

CI/CD

Agile

Communication

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Testcontainers

Gatling

k6

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

Referment is seeking a seasoned QA automation/SDET engineer to own test automation for a cloud-native financial services product. You’ll design, build and own automated tests for APIs, services, and a React frontend, integrating them into CI/CD for fast feedback.

You’ll lead performance, load and scalability testing, review PRs for quality, and mentor engineers in testing. Apply AI-assisted testing tools while upholding security and privacy standards such as PCI and ISO 27001.