Senior QA Engineer - Automation Lead for FinTech Platforms

Referment; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment, a financial services technology company, is looking for a QA/SDET engineer to design and own automated test suites across APIs, services and a React front end, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for rapid feedback. You'll lead performance, load and scalability testing, mentor the team, champion AI-assisted testing, and ensure security and data privacy in line with PCI and ISO 27001 standards.

This hands-on role also involves reviewing PRs with a quality lens and shaping testing

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience as a QA, test automation or SDET engineer.
• Proficient in test automation for API and UI across modern stacks.
• Experience testing Spring Boot microservices and integration/contract testing.
• Strong performance and load testing background.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD and working with Docker/Kubernetes/AWS.
• Good SQL skills (PostgreSQL).
• Familiar with AI-assisted testing tools and safe data handling.
• Solid understanding of test pyramid, BDD and TDD in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own automated test suites across APIs, services and a React front end.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable feedback.
• Lead performance, load and scalability testing; identify bottlenecks with engineers.
• Review PRs with a quality lens; mentor engineers to own quality.
• Champion AI tools in testing and evolve test strategy and metrics.
• Ensure security and data privacy alignment with PCI and ISO 27001; coordinate with security.
• Support releases and triage customer-reported issues; perform targeted exploratory testing.

Skills

Kotlin/Java/TypeScript

API/UI automation

Cypress/Playwright

Spring Boot testing

JUnit/Testcontainers

Performance testing

CI/CD pipelines

Docker/Kubernetes/AWS

SQL (PostgreSQL)

AI-assisted testing

Test pyramid/BDD/TDD

Agile/Lean

Communication

Tools

Jira

Git/CI tooling

Job description

Referment, a financial services technology company, is looking for a QA/SDET engineer to design and own automated test suites across APIs, services and a React front end, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for rapid feedback. You'll lead performance, load and scalability testing, mentor the team, champion AI-assisted testing, and ensure security and data privacy in line with PCI and ISO 27001 standards.

This hands-on role also involves reviewing PRs with a quality lens and shaping testing