Senior Automation Engineer

Your responsibilities • Define and evolve the team's test automation strategy, including roadmap, tooling, framework architecture, and quality gates. • Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve scalable automation frameworks for UI and API testing. • Partner with Functional SMEs to define quality approaches, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test coverage. • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate closely with development and infrastructure teams. • Run automation feasibility assessments and recommend the right level of automation per feature. • Improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, and diagnostics in a continuous improvement mindset. • Ensure proper handling of test data dependencies, environments, and cross-system integration flows. • Collaborate effectively in an international, cross-country setup and contribute to QA/test automation communities. Our requirements • 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation (UI and API: REST/SOAP). • 5+ years of experience with .NET (preferred) or Java. • Practical experience with Playwright or Selenium. • Strong understanding of test automation framework design and maintainable architecture patterns. • Experience with SQL and data validation for automated tests. • Experience with CI/CD integration (e.g., Bamboo/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar). • Experience with Git-based workflows (Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab). • Experience working with Jira in agile delivery environments. • Strong leadership, mentoring/coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills. • Self-driven, proactive, and able to work independently. • Fluent spoken and written English. Optional • Experience in banking/financial services domain. • Experience with Temenos T24. • Experience working in large, distributed enterprise test environments. • Practical experience with AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for test script generation, refactoring, and documentation. • Exposure to LLM-based test automation techniques (e.g., generating locators, test data, or assertions from requirements).