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Our technology powers mission-critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries. \nAbout the Role:\nWe are looking for a Technical QA Engineer to help elevate the quality of platform and DevOps deliverables. This role focuses on validating technical, operational, and business-related capabilities delivered by platform engineering teams, ensuring that enhancements meet functional, operational, and customer usage expectations before they are released. The successful candidate will work closely with DevOps engineers, product owners, architects, developers, and stakeholders to define and execute meaningful test coverage. This is not limited to basic deployment verification; the role is intended to validate the actual behaviour, usability, integration, and readiness of DevOps deliverables across realistic product and customer scenarios.\nThe role is primarily manual QA. Exposure to scripting or automation is considered an advantage, with the potential to support future test coverage improvements where relevant.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlan, design, and execute manual test scenarios for DevOps and platform deliverables, including both technical and business-oriented functionality.\nValidate application and platform behaviour across containerized environments and, where relevant, virtual machine-based environments.\nPerform end-to-end validation of Kubernetes-based deployments, Helm chart behaviour, configuration changes, upgrades, rollbacks, and release readiness activities.\nTest platform services and integrations involving Kafka, MQ, Elasticsearch, databases, APIs, logging, monitoring, and operational tooling.\nValidate deployment, scaling, resiliency, backup, recovery, failover, and day-2 operational workflows where applicable.\nVerify that platform deliverables support expected business/application flows, not only that the deployment technically completes.\nReview requirements, design notes, Jira items, and technical documentation to identify test impact, gaps, risks, and required clarifications.\nCreate and maintain test cases, test evidence, defect documentation, and release-quality summaries.\nInvestigate issues using logs, system behaviour, configuration, monitoring dashboards, and collaboration with DevOps and development teams. Technical QA Engineer - DevOps & Platform Quality | Job Description Technical QA Engineer - DevOps & Platform Quality | Job Description\nParticipate in defect triage, root-cause analysis, regression validation, and production-readiness discussions.\nContribute to continuous improvement of QA practices for DevOps deliverables, including better test coverage, earlier validation, and clearer acceptance criteria. Required Experience and Skills\nExperience in quality assurance, system testing, technical validation, or platform/application testing roles.\nStrong manual QA capabilities, including test analysis, test design, execution, evidence collection, and defect reporting.\nAbility to understand technical requirements and translate them into practical test scenarios.\nHands-on experience with API testing.\nGood understanding of backend systems, distributed applications, APIs, and microservices-based solutions\nHands-on experience working with Linux environments and analyzing logs or system-level behaviour.\nFamiliarity with containerized environments, preferably Kubernetes or OpenShift.\nFamiliarity with messaging or event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or similar.\nExposure to search or indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.\nExperience validating integrations across applications, middleware, infrastructure, and platform services.\nAbility to troubleshoot complex workflows and collaborate effectively with DevOps, development, architecture, and product stakeholders.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills in English.\nTechnical Ecosystem Area Relevant Exposure Platforms Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Helm, containerized environments, VM-based environments CI/CD and release flow Azure DevOps, pipelines, deployment validation, upgrade and rollback checks Middleware and integrations Kafka, MQ, APIs, service integrations, asynchronous processing Data and search Relational databases, NoSQL databases, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards Cloud and infrastructure Azure cloud services, networking concepts, infrastructure configuration, platform services Scripting / automation advantage Python, Bash, JavaScript, API test tools, automation frameworks as an advantage Advantageous Skills\nBackground in fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated enterprise software environments.\nUnderstanding of payment flows, transaction processing, settlement, reconciliation, or related financial application concepts.\nExposure to Azure cloud environments and cloud-native services.\nKnowledge of monitoring and observability practices using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Open Telemetry, or similar.\nBasic scripting experience using Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar languages.\nExposure to API testing tools, automated testing concepts, or test automation frameworks.\nExperience working in a DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused organization.\nHands-on experience in security validation, including authentication, authorization, and secrets/configuration management verification. Expected Candidate Profile\nTechnically curious QA professional who can go beyond UI or basic happy-path testing.\nComfortable working in complex, distributed, and containerized environments.\nAble to challenge unclear requirements and identify missing acceptance criteria\nStrong collaborator who can work with DevOps engineers while maintaining an independent quality mindset.\nPractical, hands-on, and capable of connecting technical platform behaviour to real product and customer impact. Role Success Measures\nImproved quality and completeness of DevOps deliverables before handover or release.\nBetter validation of enhanced platform and business functionality, not only deployment success.\nEarlier identification of defects, configuration gaps, integration issues, and operational risks.\nClearer test evidence and stronger release-readiness visibility for stakeholders.\nGradual improvement of repeatable QA practices for platform and DevOps workstreams.\nWe are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:\nFlexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.\nWell-being: Access confidential one-to-one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive-inside and outside of work.\nHealth & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*\nSustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation-matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.\nInclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra-open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.\nCareer Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.\nRecognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.\n*Specific benefits may vary by location.\nAt Finastra, each individual is unique-bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.\nBe unique. Be exceptional. 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