automation qa

The company develops and maintains a sophisticated order generation, management, execution, and workflow platform for SMA and Municipal trading, utilized by a major global asset management firm. The system operates as an in-house, service-based solution deployed across public and private cloud environments, leveraging distributed architecture and real-time data processing technologies.

• Design, develop, review, and maintain automated test code for backend services, APIs, integrations, and UI components;
• Build and extend test automation frameworks, utilities, mocks, test data setup, and reusable testing components;
• Contribute to test automation strategy, framework improvements, and engineering best practices;
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing;
• Validate complex business workflows related to trading, order lifecycle, and data processing;
• Collaborate with developers during feature design to identify testability gaps and quality risks;
• Participate in requirements analysis, test scenario design, and technical review discussions;
• Analyze application logs, service behavior, data flows, and source code to investigate test failures;
• Identify, document, and track defects through their lifecycle;
• Enhance and maintain test documentation and automated test coverage;
• Work with distributed systems and validate event-driven or asynchronous flows;
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test reliability.

• Strong understanding of software testing principles and methodologies;
• Hands-on experience with functional, integration, regression, and API testing;
• Experience with test case design, test planning, and risk-based testing;
• Ability to balance automated testing with exploratory and analytical QA activities;
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams;
• Hands-on experience writing automated tests in C# or Java;
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, reusable test code;
• Experience with at least one test automation framework;
• Experience with API and backend test automation;
• Experience with CI/CD integration of automated tests;
• Ability to debug automated test failures and distinguish between product, test, data, and environment issues;
• Experience with backend systems, preferably in .NET, .NET Framework, or Java environments;
• Good understanding of REST APIs and tools like Postman or Swagger;
• Basic knowledge of databases and SQL for data validation;
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture;
• Ability to validate asynchronous workflows and eventual consistency scenarios;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Attention to detail and ownership mindset;
• Ability to clearly communicate issues, risks, and technical findings in English;
• Nice to have: Experience in financial systems or trading platforms, Understanding of order lifecycle or capital markets workflows, Experience with performance or load testing, Experience testing event-driven or streaming systems, Experience reading or contributing to .NET, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript codebases, Experience with frontend test automation for React or AngularJS, Experience building test utilities, mocks, stubs, or test data generators.

• Flexible work setup: remote or a hybrid model;
• Health insurance coverage for those based in Cyprus or Poland;
• 50% Coverage of health insurance for spouses and children in Cyprus or Poland;
• 24 Days of paid vacation;
• 10 Days of paid sick leave;
• 50% Reimbursement for professional training, education, and conferences;
• Work alongside a highly professional team;
• Engaging teambuilding events and activities;
• Relocation support is available for Poland or Cyprus, including flight tickets, accommodation rent for the first month, and assistance with visa and residence permit processing.