Test Engineer

Role Description

Our client is responsible for the maintenance and operations of a critical part of the payment engine. Each engineer has their specialty, and in this role your focus will be on testing . You will ensure the application is of high quality across all aspects: functional, performance, resilience, and security. Most of the tests are automated, so test automation will be a core part of your work. Since maintenance and operations are also part of the scope, you will participate in standby duties.

You will also be part of a broader testing chapter, where you will collaborate with other test engineers to continuously improve quality practices, frameworks, and processes. This includes improving test frameworks, introducing new tools, enhancing the CI/CD setup, and implementing new methodologies.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Test automation with Java, Cucumber, Gatling, and related tools

• Participate in refinement and planning with your squad, chain squads, and product owner

• Apply capacity and performance management to ensure top-class application performance

• Set up and use continuous delivery pipelines

• Automate and execute functional tests with Cucumber and Karate

• Support in implementing countermeasures to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and system availability

• Work with core ITIL processes and apply them to maintain application quality

Requirements

• 7+ years of testing experience across functional, performance, resilience, and security testing

• 5+ years of experience with Cucumber (Java implementation)

• 5+ years of experience testing back-end systems

• Proven experience creating test automation frameworks from scratch for complex systems

• Strong knowledge of APIs and message queues (ActiveMQ, JMS, EMS, Kafka, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD

• Strong communication skills in English, both oral and written

• Experience working in Agile and/or DevOps environments

• Pro-active mindset with focus on improvement, quality, and coaching others

Nice-to-haves

• Background in the banking industry, familiarity with ISO20022, Swift, SEPA

• Experience with GitLab, TFS, Azure DevOps, Gatling, Kibana, Prometheus

• Hands-on experience testing applications built with Cassandra (CQL), Java (Akka, Spring), JMS (EMS/MQ), Kafka, Tibco Business Works, Unix