qa engineer (auto)

Exness is an international fintech company and trading broker that provides trading services to more than a million clients globally.

• Plan testing activities during backlog refinement and sprint planning by defining test scope, approach, acceptance criteria, and effort estimates for manual and automated testing;
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and database layers;
• Execute manual functional, regression, and exploratory testing;
• Prepare and maintain reliable test environments, test data, mocks, and feature flags;
• Improve the automation framework by developing reusable components, reducing flaky tests, refactoring legacy code, and increasing test coverage and stability;
• Integrate automated testing into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, monitor pipeline health, investigate failures, and collaborate with DevOps;
• Participate in production deployments by executing post-deployment validation and verifying critical user journeys with production data;
• Provide go/no-go recommendations based on release readiness and identified risks;
• Communicate testing progress, quality metrics, risks, and blockers to stakeholders;
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, architects, and designers throughout each sprint;
• Drive adoption of AI across quality engineering practices, including test generation, monitoring, data quality validation, and code review processes;
• Mentor team members on quality engineering best practices;
• Establish quality standards across the SDLC;
• Lead testing efforts for complex cross-team initiatives when required.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field;
• 4–6 Years of experience in software testing, including at least 2 years focused on automation;
• Strong experience in backend automation testing, including APIs, integrations, and service-level testing;
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Python, Java, or Go;
• Experience with API testing tools and frameworks;
• Experience building and maintaining automated test suites for backend systems;
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab CI/CD;
• Working knowledge of Docker and modern engineering practices;
• Understanding of databases and SQL;
• Strong practical experience using AI tools in engineering workflows, with the ability to demonstrate improvements in testing, development, or productivity;
• Nice to have: ISTQB Foundation certification or similar, experience with Playwright or Selenium, experience with observability, monitoring, or infrastructure automation, experience with AI assistants such as Claude or Codex.

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus;
• Full relocation support for the employee and family, including flights, housing, visas, and legal assistance;
• Top-tier health insurance with full family coverage, including medical, dental, vision, mental health, and life insurance;
• External courses, English lessons, and career and leadership development;
• Education allowance covering school and kindergarten fees;
• 21 Working days of annual leave, public holidays, and fully paid sick, maternity, and paternity leave;
• Employee appreciation program with branded gifts, birthday days off, and celebration budgets for weddings, newborns, and milestones;
• Team trips and company-wide offsites;
• Employee share scheme;
• Branded MINI Cooper Countryman company car and private parking;
• Free in-house sports clubs, Sanctum Club gym access, and jet skis;
• Access to a corporate doctor;
• Exclusive discount program with cafes, gyms, and local services;
• Expat tax perks of up to 50% income tax exemption;
• Support with the naturalisation process for relocated employees.