Senior Test Engineer

Job Description
Join our Technology R&D Lab as a Senior Test Engineer and play a key role in building the next generation of composable, coreless banking solutions. You will help deliver a secure, reliable, and scalable SaaS product for use by numerous financial institutions.

You will work with highly capable engineers and product teams to define and implement modern testing frameworks, ensuring our banking platform rapidly, repeatedly and consistently delivers quality, compliance, and resilience at scale.

Your key tasks:

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks across UI, API, and integration layers using tools like Cypress, Playwright, and Postman
Implement BDD testing practices using tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow to strengthen collaboration between product and engineering
Develop test suites for performance, reliability, and security testing (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, OWASP ZAP)
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to enable continuous testing and faster feedback cycles
Partner with SRE, Platform Engineering, and Product teams to embed quality checks in the delivery process from design through deployment
Define AI-enabled test data management, validation and environment strategies to support parallel testing across multiple product teams
Champion quality engineering principles and mentor team members on test design, coverage, and automation best practices

Qualifications
5+ years of experience in test automation for distributed or cloud-native systems
Expertise in modern test frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit) and BDD practices
Experience testing backend APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines
Familiarity with AWS cloud services (DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS/EKS), at least one other cloud service and Infrastructure-as-Code testing (Terraform, CDK)
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps principles
Awareness of compliance and security testing for regulated financial systems (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR)
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to problem solving and continuous improvement

Additional Information
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.