QA Automation Engineer

BlackCube Labs; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive day rates

Contract flexibility

Global wealth management project

Job summary

BlackCube Labs in Wrocław is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer for a 5-month contract to modernise large-scale order and trade management platforms. Design and maintain reusable automation frameworks for Spring Boot services, REST APIs and cloud-native architectures; build comprehensive test suites across UI, API and integration tests.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed tests in CI/CD pipelines, define quality gates and ensure release readiness for complex rewrites in a

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining QA automation frameworks.
• Proven experience testing Spring Boot services, REST APIs, microservices and data flows.
• Experience embedding automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable automation frameworks and test components for application rewrites and platform upgrades.
• Build comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, integration, API, UI, smoke and end-to-end scenarios.
• Validate REST APIs, microservices, data flows, business rules and user journeys across modernised systems.
• Implement API automation using REST Assured, Postman/Newman or similar tools.
• Develop UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or equivalent frameworks.
• Embed automated tests within CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates to support reliable releases.
• Create test strategies, test plans, traceability matrices, test data and environment readiness documentation.
• Investigate defects, perform triage and root cause analysis in collaboration with development and business teams.
• Enhance automation coverage, execution speed and stability by reducing flaky tests and applying coding standards.
• Report quality risks, dependencies, blockers and release readiness status to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Test automation design

CI/CD integration

API testing

UI testing

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Agile working

Tools

Java

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Newman

Spring Boot

Job description

QA Automation Engineer

Location: Wrocław

Contract Type: 5-month contract

• Contribute to large-scale platform modernisation across order and trade management systems
• Build and maintain automation frameworks for Spring Boot services, REST APIs and cloud-native architectures
• Work within a global wealth management technology organisation serving financial advisors across the Americas
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on quality strategy for complex application rewrites and infrastructure upgrades
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with clear quality gates and release readiness metrics

Company Overview

Our client is a global financial services organisation operating within wealth management technology. Their technology division builds and maintains platforms that serve financial advisors and clients across the Americas, focusing on investment research, advisory services and trading capabilities across multiple asset classes. The organisation is currently modernising its order and trade management platform, transitioning to a cloud-native, event-driven architecture while maintaining focus on resilience, low latency and regulatory compliance. This transformation involves application rewrites, framework upgrades and infrastructure changes across critical trading systems.

Position Overview

They are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join their team in Wrocław and play a key role in ensuring quality across complex modernisation programmes involving application rewrites, Spring Boot changes and platform upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable automation frameworks and test components for application rewrites and platform upgrades
• Build comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, integration, API, UI, smoke and end-to-end scenarios
• Validate REST APIs, microservices, data flows, business rules and user journeys across modernised systems
• Implement API automation using REST Assured, Postman/Newman or similar tools
• Develop UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or equivalent frameworks
• Embed automated tests within CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates to support reliable releases
• Create test strategies, test plans, traceability matrices, test data and environment readiness documentation
• Investigate defects, perform triage and root cause analysis in collaboration with development and business teams
• Enhance automation coverage, execution speed and stability by reducing flaky tests and applying coding standards
• Report quality risks, dependencies, blockers and release readiness status to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• 8-10 years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining QA automation frameworks using Java or another object-oriented language
• Proven experience testing Spring Boot services, REST APIs, microservices, integrations and data flows
• Strong knowledge of positive, negative, boundary and error-handling test scenarios
• Expertise with automation testing tools including Selenium, Playwright and database technologies
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establishing quality gates
• Ability to develop test strategies and test plans for complex modernisation initiatives
• Strong analytical skills for defect investigation, triage and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication skills to convey quality risks and findings to diverse stakeholders
• Experience working within agile, cross-functional teams on platform modernisation projects

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on high-impact modernisation programmes within global wealth management technology
• Exposure to cloud-native, event-driven architectures and modern development practices
• Collaboration with experienced developers, product owners and platform teams across multiple locations
• Professional development through complex technical challenges involving trading systems and regulatory compliance
• Contract flexibility with competitive day rates

You’ll join a focused technology crew working on critical order and trade management platforms, contributing to modernisation efforts that directly impact financial advisors and their clients across the Americas. The role offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge automation tools, cloud technologies and quality engineering practices within a regulated financial services environment.