Overview

QA Automation Engineer – FinTech Scale-Up/ 100% remote

Location: UK (100% Remote)

Are you a detail-driven QA Automation Engineer with a passion for financial systems and cutting-edge technology? This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth FinTech innovator that's transforming how institutions and corporates interact with global financial markets.

As part of a fast-moving product team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the robustness, performance and reliability of financial technology solutions that support high-volume transactions. You\'ll work alongside engineers, product managers, and domain experts to help shape the future of real-time financial platforms.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Championing quality across the entire product development lifecycle
• Creating comprehensive and structured test plans, test cases, and test strategies
• Designing and maintaining automated test frameworks
• Expanding and optimising regression test packs to maintain high test coverage
• Identifying and documenting defects, collaborating with teams to ensure timely resolution
• Influencing system architecture from a testability perspective
• Tracking and reporting quality metrics across platforms
• Keeping up to date with emerging tools, trends and techniques in automation and testing

What We’re Looking For

• Previous experience testing systems in financial services, ideally with exposure to Fintech or high-value transaction systems
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies and best practices
• Experience using Cypress for automation testing
• Confident working with both white-box and black-box testing approaches
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical mindset
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Experience using AI tools to support test planning and analysis is a plus

Interview Process

• Initial Application + Questionnaire – Once you\'ve applied, you\'ll be sent a short questionnaire focused on your approach to QA processes and methodology.
• First Stage Interview – An introductory conversation with the Hiring Manager to explore mutual fit and expectations.
• Technical Task – You\'ll be given a home-based task to complete in your own time.
• Second Stage Interview – A walkthrough of your completed task with the Hiring Manager.
• Final Stage Interview – A company fit discussion with the CTO or Tech Director.

We appreciate that this process includes a few steps, but the client has assured us it will be smooth and fast-moving — as long as candidates are responsive and move at a similar pace with the task and questionnaire stages.

If you\'re excited by the idea of joining a nimble, collaborative team working at the heart of financial innovation — we’d love to hear from you.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Quality Assurance

Industries

• Staffing and Recruiting
• Financial Services