Lead Automation Engineer - Fintech Quality & CI/CD (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Anniversary Rewards

Paid Car Parking

36 days holiday

Learning & Wellbeing Budget

Therapy sessions

Free drinks & snacks

Job summary

Capital on Tap is seeking a Lead Automation Engineer for its Quality Engineering team. This role focuses on defining and owning the testing strategy across domains such as payments and onboarding, and hands-on automation of API, UI and mobile tests within a mission team.

You will drive automation targets, work with CI/CD and central tooling, and coach engineers on best practices while leveraging AI tools for efficiency. Remote-first with Lisbon hybrid setup in future.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA Automation/SDET within Agile teams.
• Proficient in modern automation languages (C# or JS/TS).
• Experience testing fintech systems (card issuing, transaction processing or risk).
• Hands-on with UI/API testing tools and frameworks.
• Familiar with CI/CD, cloud, and deployment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end testing strategy for your domain within the mission team.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests (API, UI, Mobile).
• Champion Shift-Left by collaborating with Product Owners and Developers from refinement.
• Manage automation targets and use data-driven insights to predict high-risk areas.
• Lead central automation tooling adoption and CI/CD integration.
• Collaborate with Tooling Team to build helpers or data generators for the framework.
• Ensure automated tests run in CI/CD with fast feedback loops.
• Coordinate testing of microservices, security (OWASP ZAP), and performance aspects.
• Coach engineers and QA staff on automation patterns and best practices.
• Utilize AI tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot) for architecture exploration and test generation.
• Define test data strategies and environments for automated and exploratory testing.

Skills

QA Automation/SDET

C# or JavaScript/TypeScript

Fintech testing

CI/CD

Azure

Git

Microservices

Security testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

OWASP ZAP

Job description

Capital on Tap is seeking a Lead Automation Engineer for its Quality Engineering team. This role focuses on defining and owning the testing strategy across domains such as payments and onboarding, and hands-on automation of API, UI and mobile tests within a mission team.

You will drive automation targets, work with CI/CD and central tooling, and coach engineers on best practices while leveraging AI tools for efficiency. Remote-first with Lisbon hybrid setup in future.