Senior QA Test Engineer 100% (f/m/d)

Tasks

As a Senior QA Test Engineer, you will be part of an agile product team. Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Work as an embedded QA test engineer in an agile team and take responsibility for end-to-end quality assurance for all team-owned applications (e.g., Campaign Manager, FactSet, Fund Gallery, Scalable Advice Engine, etc.).
• Drive all aspects of quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from story refinement and design to testing, release, and post-release validation.
• Design, execute, and maintain test cases to ensure complete coverage of business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure functional correctness through well-designed positive, negative, and exploratory test scenarios.
• Create, manage, and validate test data across different environments
• Perform tests and document results in an audit-proof manner (e.g., logs, screenshots, traceability, comments)
• Validate system integrations with REST API testing, with a clear understanding of request/response flow, error handling, and data consistency.
• Perform end-to-end testing across multiple systems, with an understanding of dependencies between internal applications and external providers
• Use Git for versioning test scripts and collaborate with developers on code changes
• Perform structured root cause analysis to distinguish between UI issues, integration errors, data issues, environmental issues, or requirement gaps.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, and external providers
• Clearly communicate test progress, coverage, risks, and quality status to the agile team, test manager, business users, and external providers.
• Take responsibility for defect management and quality tracking until a solution is found
• Support the team in troubleshooting and debugging to ensure timely closure and regression.
• Participate in non-functional testing strategies, including participation in performance assessments and scalability testing

Requirements

For this position, we are looking for a candidate with:

• Proven experience as a QA Test Engineer in Agile/Scrum teams (DevOps setup is a plus)
• Strong experience in managing and supporting testing activities in an agile team, from development testing to acceptance testing
• Industry knowledge in the banking or financial services sector (a strong advantage)
• Practical experience with REST API testing
• Good knowledge of Jira, Xray knowledge is a plus
• Ability to work independently, take responsibility, and proactively drive quality issues forward
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including structured root cause analysis
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills, including Agile/Scrum teams, DevOps setup
• High resilience and ability