Position: Senior Automation QA Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**Description**

Our Client is one of the UKs leading fintech scale-ups. You will be part of a scaling business in a high-quality team that is working on new products and features while solving interesting technical challenges. In this role you will work in a cross-functional co-located team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have access to the latest technologies.

Project is a payments business providing API-based solutions for commercial and wholesale customers. Our customers include neobanks, crypto platforms, travel companies and payroll/accountancy software providers. Businesses no longer tolerate the slow and costly infrastructure provided by legacy institutions – with project services, businesses can eliminate historic hidden inefficiencies and build fast-to-market products on top of our award-winning payments platform.

**Responsibilities**
As our new Senior Automation QA Engineer, you will be:
‣ involved in both manual and automated testing techniques within a fast-paced agile environment
‣ experienced at creating and maintaining automation tests and contributing to automation framework in a collaborative environment

**Requirements**
‣ 3+ years of API Automation (REST, SOAP)
‣ Experience in creation of automation frameworks from scratch.
‣ Solid skills in Java and OOP.
‣ Knowledge of BDD approaches (Cucumber / SpecFlow)
‣ Good knowledge of different testing methods, techniques and types
‣ Understanding of Agile/Scrum.
‣ Master's or Bachelor’s degree  in Computer science or relevant
‣ Good English skills – Upper-Intermediate and above

**Desirable**
‣ Knowledge of UK and/or Euro payment scheme
‣ Good Knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL or similar)
‣ Hand-on experience with Docker
‣ Knowledge of programming languages, such as Python/C# would be a great plus.

**Personal skills**
‣ Good analytical skills
‣ Good team player, motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
‣ Strong communication and problem solving skills
‣ Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
‣ Strong attention to details and accuracy

**What's in it for you**
‣ Very close cooperation with different clients
‣ Dynamic and challenging tasks.
‣ Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills.
‣ Low bureaucracy, European management style.
‣ Continuous self-improvement.
‣ Trainings
‣ Knowledge sharing meetings