QA engineer (auto) for banking platforms

Hyperlayer is the intelligent banking platform built for the agentic economy: the financial control layer that sits above banks' existing cores, enabling next-generation Smart Accounts, without ripping anything out. From a single integration, we give financial institutions a secure rules and orchestration engine that lets them design, launch and scale hyper-personalised products in weeks while preserving stability, compliance and control.

• Own our test automation frameworks and tooling, keeping them maintainable, fast and trusted by the engineers who depend on them.
• Design and build new frameworks where gaps exist, such as data-driven test harnesses and non-functional testing tooling.
• Set up and own contract testing across services with Pact (Pact JVM, Pact Broker or PactFlow), including provider verification and can-i-deploy gates in CI/CD.
• Decide which testing runs at each pipeline and certification stage, balancing coverage, speed and flake tolerance.
• Set framework standards and conventions, and review designs and code so pod quality engineers follow them.
• Partner with engineering leads on test architecture for new services, so quality is designed in rather than bolted on.
• Work with Product and Client Implementation so what we test reflects what clients actually do, especially for payment flows.
• Drive down flakiness and runtime, with clear metrics on suite health, coverage and reliability.
• Lead how we use AI in testing: evaluate tools, set guardrails and roll out what works.
• Raise the team's technical bar through pairing, code review and training, including helping manual testers grow into automation engineers.

• 8+ years in test automation and quality engineering, including time as a technical lead or principal-level engineer.
• A clear track record of building and evolving automation frameworks from scratch, not just maintaining someone else's.
• Deep API automation expertise with REST Assured (or equivalent) and Postman/Newman.
• Hands-on experience setting up contract testing with Pact or similar, including a broker, provider verification and CI/CD gates.
• Strong Java skills (or another JVM language, or Golang), writing production-quality framework code.
• Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines, test environments and test data, and how to keep large suites fast and reliable.
• Direct experience in fintech, payments or another regulated financial services environment.
• Comfortable setting standards, pushing back on shortcuts and bringing the rest of the team along without direct authority.
• Willing and able to be in our London office four days per week.
• Будет плюсом: Non-functional testing experience: performance (Gatling, JMeter, k6), fuzz and security testing; UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress) where it complements an API-first strategy; Experience working with third-party clients or vendor QA teams; Familiarity with payment schemes, ISO 20022, card processing or open banking; Practical experience using AI tools in testing, including their limits

• A performance-based employee bonus scheme.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a day off on your birthday, and an additional day per year of tenure to a maximum of 30.
• Critical illness and life insurance cover.
• AXA PPP Health Insurance, including gym offers.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Referral bonus scheme.
• Workplace nursery scheme.