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As a Quality Engineer, you’ll go beyond conventional testing by designing intelligent, automated test strategies that safeguard the integrity of critical systems. You’ll embed assurance deep into CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools like Azure DevOps, Cypress, and REST-assured to validate everything from APIs to workflows. Every sprint, you’ll play a hands-on role in shaping how quality is built, ensuring performance, compliance, and resilience standards stay flawless under real-world conditions.\nThis is a role for someone, who thrives on solving intricate testing challenges in data-heavy, regulated environments. You’ll partner with developers and product owners to push automation boundaries, transform manual bottlenecks into code-driven validation, and champion a “shift-left, code-first” approach to quality. If you’re passionate about precision, automation, and the craft of testing applications, this is where you can turn testing into engineering mastery.\nAccountability and Responsibility\nDesigns and executes comprehensive test scenarios covering functional, integration, and regression testing across applications.\nWorks closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to refine testable user stories, ensuring acceptance criteria cover both functional and non-functional aspects, and proactively challenges ambiguity or inefficiencies in test scope.\nBuilds and maintains robust test data and reusable artefacts for scenarios embedding these into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps to enable continuous testing.\nDrives root cause analysis of defects, champions risk-based test prioritisation and identifies opportunities to replace manual testing with scalable automation to increase feedback speed and maintain sprint velocity.\nActively participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to advocate for early quality input, align on coverage expectations, and foster a quality-first culture that includes security, accessibility, and usability considerations.\nDelivering test automation and improvements wherever practical.\nKnowledge and Education\nEssential\nStrong QA experience of development and integrating components, at least 5 years.\nQA of services through use of and supporting APIs, at least 3 years\nUnderstanding of and ability to apply modern development methodologies such as BDD, TDD, Pairing etc. to support our Agile delivery practices\nExperience of QA of component designs and specification from a high-level solution architecture\nExperience of delivery through Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) environments\nExperience of QA of software in a formal regime using source control management and controlled gates with relevant artefacts to support design, quality and support.\nExperience delivering test automation or frameworks and incorporating these into CI/CD environments\nExperience of UI testing strategy and execution for browser and mobile applications\nExperience of working in a mid-sized corporate environment, successfully aligning solutions appropriately with wider roadmaps, architecture and other initiatives\nAutomation experience in Cypress with Cucumber or similar tool/s\nAgile Project Management tooling such as Jira, Confluence\nDesirable\nExperience of non-functional testing strategy for performance, load, stress and soak testing e.g. JMeter\nAzure DevOps, App Insights, Mailpit/Mailhog\nQA of RESTful web services\nDB technologies e.g. SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL\nJSON, XML, HTML, CSS, SCSS and JavaScript\nExperience of software development QA in a financially regulated business such as the Banking or Insurance market\nWhat is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD\nOur agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.\nAt EBRD, our Values - Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility - are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.\nThe EBRD environment provides you with:\nVaried, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in. \nA working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.\nWe offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum). \nAn environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do. \nA workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits. \nDiversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. 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