Senior QA Engineer - Payments & Automation

Xe.com; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Discretionary Bon

23 days annual leave increasing with服务

Paid day off for Birthday

4% employer pension contribution

Discounted Xe ESPP

Life Cover & Income Protection

Healthcare

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Volunteering day

Job summary

Xe.com is seeking a senior QA engineer to own end-to-end quality for its cross-border payments platform. You will design test automation, lead modernization of the test estate, and work closely with engineering, product and compliance.

You’ll mentor mid-level QA engineers and drive quality decisions across domains. You will use AI-enabled tooling daily, shape contract tests, and partner with architects on cross-domain quality.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years building production test automation, end-to-end.
• Strong test automation skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C#, incl. test framework design.
• SQL and relational DB fundamentals for test data, validation and debugging.
• API testing (Postman, Bruno or equivalent) and UI automation (Playwright, Cypress).

Responsibilities

• Design and own integration test harnesses and contract tests for money flows.
• Lead the design of test automation that gates code into production across onboarding, KYC/KYB, payments, FX and settlement.
• Balance manual and automated testing; write test cases and lead automation in Playwright and similar frameworks.
• Own CI/CD quality strategy, release gates, flaky-test triage and production incident investigations.
• Lead test-architecture reviews and mentor mid-level QA engineers.
• Use AI tools daily and build the test estate for new capability on the modern stack.

Skills

QA Automation

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

C#

SQL

API Testing

UI Automation

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

JMeter

k6

GitHub Actions

Job description

Xe.com is seeking a senior QA engineer to own end-to-end quality for its cross-border payments platform. You will design test automation, lead modernization of the test estate, and work closely with engineering, product and compliance.

You’ll mentor mid-level QA engineers and drive quality decisions across domains. You will use AI-enabled tooling daily, shape contract tests, and partner with architects on cross-domain quality.