Test Automation Engineer

🌍Location: hybrid - 3 days a week from the office in Gdansk/Gdynia

⏳Duration of assignment: 12 months first contract (prolongation expected).

📕Language: English + Polish.

⚙️Industry: banking.

💻Workload: Full time.

Summary

The STP Lending Manager application is a greenfield initiative that offers a rare opportunity to shape a platform from scratch within a highly motivated product team. This role emphasizes strong collaboration within Agile methodologies and a culture of ownership.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will:

• Define, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks (BDD/Cucumber).

• Advocate and enforce quality standards across delivery stages.

• Collaborate with developers and the Product Owner for early defect detection.

• Contribute to the design of testing strategies that integrate with CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop and maintain automated scripts using Java 21, Selenium, and Cucumber.

• Drive BDD practices by defining feature files and reviewing tests.

• Perform negative, exploratory, and regression testing.

• Test REST APIs, Kafka event streams, and database persistence (JPA).

• Employ tools like Splunk for log analysis.

Key Requirements

• Strong Java coding skills (preferably Java 21) for automation with Selenium/WebDriver.

• Proven experience with Cucumber for BDD.

• Familiarity with API testing, Kafka, and database validation.

• Expertise in test strategy and defect analysis in complex systems.

• Comfortable in Agile environments, closely collaborating with developers.

• Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).

Nice to Have

• Basic Docker skills for execution in containerized environments.

• Understanding of Sonar for code quality insights.

• Familiarity with Liquibase for database change control.