Automation Test Engineer

ALTEN Polska; Kraków; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work equipment provided

Conferences and trainings

Certification opportunities

Relocation possibilities

Great Place to Work

Job summary

ALTEN Polska is hiring an Automation Test Engineer to build and maintain automated test frameworks in Java, covering UI, API, and integration layers. You will translate functional requirements into robust test cases and help ensure coverage of end-to-end flows.

Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, BAs, and Ops to define acceptance criteria, integrate tests into CI/CD, analyze failures, and contribute to test documentation and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience building automation in Java
• Experience with common automation tools/frameworks such as JUnit/TestNG and Cucumber (optional).
• Familiarity with REST APIs and UI automation using Selenium/Playwright.
• Understanding of test automation best practices: maintainability, flakiness reduction, parallel execution, environment resilience.
• Familiarity with observability, logs, tracing, and SQL basics.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and suites using Java and automation tools (UI, API, integration).
• Translate functional payment requirements into automated test cases, ensuring coverage of end-to-end flows.
• Automate testing for payment types and components (credit transfers, direct debits, ISO 20022, gateways).
• Create API and service-level automation with contract/schema validation.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and enable unattended execution, reporting, and quality gates.
• Analyze failures via logs and traces; raise defects with evidence.
• Collaborate with PO, Developers, BAs, and Ops on acceptance criteria and release readiness.
• Maintain test documentation: coverage, traceability, dashboards.

Skills

Java automation

JUnit/TestNG

Selenium

Playwright

REST API testing

BDD (Cucumber)

SQL basics

CI/CD integration

Logging/monitoring

Tools

Postman

Newman

SoapUI

REST Assured

Selenium

Job description

We are part of the ALTEN Group - a leading European provider of engineering and technology consulting servics.

Join ALTEN Polska and let’s grow together!

• -Build and maintain automated test frameworks and suites using Java and appropriate automation tools (UI, API, and integration layers).
• Translate functional payment requirements into automated test cases, ensuring coverage of end-to-end flows and edge cases.
• Automate testing for payment types and components such as credit transfers, direct debits, SWIFT/ISO 20022 messages, payment gateways, validation, routing, and posting (scope depends on platform).
• Create robust API and service-level automation (e.g., REST/SOAP), including contract and schema validation where relevant.
• Validate payment processing rules: cut-off times, value dates, charges/fees, FX (if applicable), limits, sanctions/AML screening touchpoints, returns/recalls, reversals, rejects/repairs, and exception handling.
• Implement test data strategies for payments (synthetic data, masking, data seeding), including correlation of transactions across systems.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; enable unattended execution, reporting, and quality gates.
• Analyse failures quickly (logs, message traces, database queries where permitted) and raise high-quality defects with clear evidence.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, BAs, and Ops to define acceptance criteria, test approach, and release readiness.
• Maintain test documentation: automation coverage, traceability, and execution dashboards/metrics.

Key Skills and Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience building automation in Java (clean code, OOP, design patterns).
• Experience with common automation tools/frameworks such as:
• JUnit/TestNG, Cucumber/BDD (optional)
• Selenium/Playwright (UI, where applicable)
• REST Assured, Postman/Newman, SoapUI (API)
• Understanding of test automation best practices: maintainability, flakiness reduction, parallel execution, environment resilience.
• Familiarity with observability and diagnostics: logs, tracing, monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk/ELK), and basic SQL
• Familiarity with payment standards and formats (as relevant): ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX, local clearing formats.
• Understanding of operational and risk considerations: sanctions screening touchpoints, auditability, resiliency, and high availability expectations.

We offer

• A full-time contract (B2B also possible)
• All necessary work equipment is provided by us (computer, monitor etc).
• Participation in company many conferences, trainings, workshops, integration meetings, etc.
• Certification and training opportunities
• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches
• After completion of the project, opportunity to engage in a subsequent one within the company.
• Work in company with #GreatPlaceToWork Certificate