Senior QA Engineer – Cloud FinTech Automation Lead

Referment; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a financial services technology company to embed quality into cloud-native reconciliation and payments platforms. This hands-on role involves designing features, shaping acceptance criteria, and building automated test suites across APIs, services, and a React front end.

You will own test automation frameworks, drive performance and scalability testing, review PRs, mentor engineers, and ensure security and data privacy in testing while aligning with PCI and ISO 27001

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience as QA, test automation or SDET.
• Strong programming skills for test automation in Kotlin, Java or TypeScript.
• 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.
• Good SQL skills, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Confidence using AI-assisted tools day to day, with an interest in applying them to testing.
• A solid understanding of the test pyramid, BDD and TDD, and of Agile and Lean practices.
• Excellent communication, able to explain risk and quality trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own test automation frameworks and tooling across the team.
• Design, build and maintain automated test suites across APIs, services and a React frontend.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback on changes.
• Lead performance, load and scalability testing and resolve bottlenecks with engineers.
• Review PRs with a quality lens and promote AI testing tools.
• Coach and mentor engineers to own quality, participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Consider security and data privacy to align with PCI and ISO 27001 standards.
• Support releases, triage customer issues with support colleagues, and perform targeted exploratory testing of high-risk changes.

Skills

QA automation

SDET experience

Kotlin/Java/TypeScript

API automation

UI automation

Spring Boot testing

JUnit/Testcontainers

Performance testing

CI/CD integration

Docker/Kubernetes/AWS

SQL (PostgreSQL)

AI-assisted testing

BDD/TDD

Agile/Lean

Communication

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Testcontainers

Gatling

k6

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

Referment is partnering with a financial services technology company to embed quality into cloud-native reconciliation and payments platforms. This hands-on role involves designing features, shaping acceptance criteria, and building automated test suites across APIs, services, and a React front end.

You will own test automation frameworks, drive performance and scalability testing, review PRs, mentor engineers, and ensure security and data privacy in testing while aligning with PCI and ISO 27001