Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality role on a large-scale payments modernisation programme — legacy platform being replaced with event-driven microservices on AWS. Kafka, Quarkus, Testcontainers, CI/CD. Modern stack, proper engineering standards.

This is a hands‑on coding role embedded in a cross-functional squad. If you’re a manual tester looking to transition or a QA manager who’s stepped back from writing code — this probably isn’t it. If you design test strategies, write automation yourself, and get involved well before test execution — read on.

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• Challenging acceptance criteria during refinement — surfacing missing scenarios before a line of code is written
  
• Writing test automation integrated directly into the CI pipeline
  
• Designing parity comparisons between the legacy platform and the new system
  
• Working Kafka — publishing test events, consuming outputs, debugging message flows
  
• Keeping the test suite lean, fast, and meaningful (coverage numbers are not the goal)
  
• Owning quality metrics and surfacing risks early
  

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• Hands‑on test automation experience — you write the code, not just the plan
  
• Comfortable with Docker and Testcontainers
  
• Agile team delivery experience, ideally with genuine refinement involvement
  

Payments or fin services background is a plus, as is any legacy migration/validation experience. xcfaprz

Good programme, interesting technical challenge, quality‑first culture.