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Our AI-powered platform combines advanced fraud detection with large-scale transactional data observability, giving banks the tools to build trust, stay compliant, and operate with confidence.\nAs a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you'll take hands-on ownership of quality across products that underpin critical financial crime prevention and transaction observability. This is a hands-on automation role for someone with strong engineering fundamentals. You'll build and evolve automation frameworks, test complex APIs and integrations, investigate defects and work closely with developers to build quality into the development process.\nYou'll join an experienced international engineering team, working day-to-day with colleagues across different countries. You'll take part in stand-ups, technical discussions and problem-solving across locations, so you'll need to communicate your thinking and ideas clearly, work independently and be comfortable contributing and challenging when needed.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, build and maintain automated tests across web, API and integration layers.\nOwn and evolve automation frameworks, improving coverage, reliability and maintainability.\nWrite clean, maintainable automation code, primarily in Java.\nBuild automated API and integration tests for complex backend and transactional systems.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.\nCombine automation with exploratory and manual testing where appropriate.\nInvestigate complex defects, analyse data and work with developers on root cause.\nWork closely with developers and Product Managers throughout the development lifecycle.\nIdentify opportunities to improve QA tooling, processes and engineering practices.\nTake ownership of your work and contribute confidently within an international Agile engineering team.\nWhat you'll bring\nClear, confident communication and experience working day-to-day with international teams, including remote stand-ups, technical discussions and cross-functional collaboration.\n5+ years' commercial QA/Test Engineering experience with significant hands-on automation.\nStrong hands-on Java experience specifically for test automation.\nStrong Playwright and/or Selenium experience.\nExperience building or significantly evolving automation frameworks, not simply adding tests to existing suites.\nAutomated API testing experience using \nRestAssured or similar code-based tools.\nJUnit, TestNG or similar.\nCI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.\nDocker/containerised environments.SQL and database validation.\nExperience testing complex web, backend, distributed or transaction-based systems.\nStrong debugging and problem-solving skills.\nNice to have\nExperience with Kafka, MQ or Elastic; 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