Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is hiring a Senior QA Engineer to own quality end-to-end and shape how the team tests, from test design and automation infrastructure to release gating and production observability. You will leverage AI thinking to improve testing processes and code quality.

In Bracknell, the role is hybrid (2–3 days in office). You will design integration tests, lead automation efforts with Playwright and other tools, and influence CI/CD quality strategies while partnering with the fintech business to

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years building production test automation (end-to-end).
• Strong SQL fundamentals for test data, validation, debugging.
• Experience with API testing and UI automation.
• Hands-on performance/load testing using tools like k6 or JMeter.

Responsibilities

• Design and own integration test harnesses and contract tests across money flows and partner APIs.
• Lead test automation design for production gates across onboarding, KYC/KYB, payments, FX, settlement and related flows.
• Balance manual vs automated testing; write test cases and drive automation in Playwright and similar frameworks.
• Own CI/CD quality strategy for the domain; drive incident investigations and translate findings into tests and improvements.

Skills

Test automation

SQL

API testing

UI automation

Performance testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

JMeter

k6

Job description

Our client, a global FinTech business, is hiring a Senior QA Engineer who owns quality end-to-end and shapes how the team tests, from test design and automation infrastructure through to release gating and production observability. You already use AI as part of how you think, build, test, and ship.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own integration test harnesses and contract tests for the flows that move money, across a range of domains and the partner APIs behind them.
• Lead the design of the test automation that gates code into production, across onboarding, KYC and KYB, payment initiation, FX, settlement, and other supporting flows.
• Set the balance of manual and automated testing for your domain: write test cases, run manual tests where they are the right tool, and lead automation in Playwright and equivalent frameworks.
• Own CI/CD quality strategy for your domain (release-blocking signals, flaky-test triage, test infrastructure health), lead production incident investigation, and translate findings into automated tests and process improvements.

Requirements

• 6 to 10+ years building production test automation, end-to-end.
• SQL and relational database fundamentals (for test data, validation, and debugging).
• API testing (Postman, Bruno, or equivalent) and UI automation (Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent).
• Functional and non-functional testing principles (reliability and security) and disciplined defect management, with hands-on performance, load, or resilience testing (k6, JMeter, or equivalent).

This is a permanent, full-time role offering hybrid working (2/3 days per week in the Bracknell office), a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and great opportunities for career progression