Senior Test Automation Engineer

Description

The company is a global financial markets infrastructure and data business with more than 300 years of history, serving customers and economies around the world.

It is headquartered in the United Kingdom and operates in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, with about 25,000 staff, more than half of them in Asia Pacific. The company also describes its footprint as 65 countries.

This is a Senior Automation Quality Assurance Engineer role at Senior Associate level on the Quant Analytics Databases team in Bucharest.

You will help keep database-driven quantitative analytics products and services reliable, consistent and sound by building automated tests across user interfaces, APIs, data processing and databases.

As a senior individual contributor, you will own complex testing work, shape the team's quality strategy and set engineering standards, while working with software engineers, quantitative specialists, product managers and other stakeholders in an international setting.

Responsibilities

• Build and upkeep scalable automated suites for database-backed applications, APIs and web interfaces.
• Own test automation across the whole development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through to production release.
• Plan test approaches for complex features, weighing functional correctness, data integrity, regression risk and system dependencies.
• Build and maintain UI automation with Selenium, Playwright or similar tools.
• Write automated tests for REST APIs and other services, checking payloads, error handling, authentication and integrations.
• Test databases with SQL to check data quality, transformations, calculations, consistency and persistence.
• Spot tasks worth automating and keep automated and exploratory testing in good balance.
• Review requirements and technical designs early to flag risks, gaps, dependencies and testability issues.
• Investigate complex failures across application, API, database and infrastructure layers, explain findings clearly and support root-cause analysis.
• Connect automated tests to version control and continuous integration workflows.
• Review test code and help shape coding standards, reusable components and maintainable automation practice.
• Report quality risks, test coverage, defects and release readiness to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Use AI-assisted tools for test design, test data, code generation, failure analysis and documentation, checking outputs for accuracy and compliance.
• Work proactively with colleagues across functions, locations and cultures.
• Drive continuous improvement across quality assurance and software engineering practice.
• Guide peers through reviews, documentation and daily collaboration, without formal line management duties.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience in software test automation or automation quality assurance.
• Python or Java, with object-oriented programming, clean code and reusable test components.
• UI automation with Selenium, Playwright or web application testing.
• API testing: REST APIs, service testing, request and response validation, integration testing and negative testing.
• Database testing: SQL, relational databases, data validation, data integrity and data transformation testing.
• Version control with Git, including branching, pull requests and code reviews.
• Testing practice: software testing methodologies, test design, functional, regression, integration, exploratory and risk-based testing, and defect management.
• Knowledge of SDLC, STLC, requirements analysis and release validation.
• AI-assisted testing: AI tools, test-case and test-data generation, automation code assistance, failure analysis and responsible use.
• Troubleshooting: root-cause analysis, log analysis, technical problem solving and defect investigation.
• Senior ownership: independent delivery, quality ownership, test strategy, automation code reviews, risk identification, stakeholder management and continuous improvement.
• Planning: prioritisation, time management, delivery planning and managing multiple activities.
• Communication: clear verbal and written communication, proactive updates, quality reporting and risk escalation.
• Collaboration: working in a multicultural environment, cross-functional work, distributed teams and knowledge sharing.
• Professional approach: accountability, attention to detail, proactivity, critical thinking and a quality focus.
• Nice to have: BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development) with Cucumber, Behave, SpecFlow or Gherkin.
• Nice to have: DevOps concepts, CI/CD, automated quality gates, pipeline integration, Docker and containerisation.
• Nice to have: ISTQB Foundation Level, ISTQB Advanced Level or a test automation certification.
• Nice to have: test automation planning, framework design, architecture and evaluation, automation roadmaps, test maintainability and test scalability.
• Nice to have: agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, sprint planning, refinement and retrospectives.
• Nice to have: data pipelines, ETL testing, large dataset validation, scheduled processing and numerical calculation testing.
• Nice to have: experience in financial services, capital markets, quantitative analytics or market data.
• Nice to have: test reporting, quality metrics, observability, continuous testing and performance testing.

Conditions

Based in Bucharest, working with colleagues across different locations.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability or any other basis protected by law, and will reasonably accommodate religious practice and mental or physical disability needs.

Benefits

• Support for personal development through formal and informal learning tools, plus competitive salaries.
• 25 days of holiday per year and 1 additional day off for your birthday.
• Annual wellness allowance and a Share Purchase Plan.
• Medical health insurance, a medical subscription for preventive services, dental cover and life insurance.
• Pillar 3 private pension, meal vouchers, flexible benefits, Bookster and volunteering events.
• Colleagues with at least one year's continuous service who become parents are entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, with the option to return on a phased basis, subject to company policy and guidelines.