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 include:

• Work as an embedded QA test engineer in an agile team, responsible for end-to-end quality assurance of all team-owned applications.
• Take charge of all quality aspects 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
• Ensuring functional correctness through well-designed positive, negative, and exploratory test scenarios
• Create, manage, and validate test data in different environments
• Performing tests and documenting the results in an audit-proof manner
• Validate system integrations using REST API testing, with a clear understanding of request/response flows, error handling, and data consistency.
• Performing end-to-end testing across multiple systems, taking into account dependencies between internal applications and external providers
• Using Git for versioning test scripts and collaborating on code changes with developers
• Performing structured root cause analysis to distinguish between UI issues, integration errors, data issues, environmental issues, or requirement gaps
• Collaboration with business users, stakeholders, and external providers
• Clear communication of test progress, coverage, risks, and quality status to the agile team, test manager, business users, and external providers
• Taking 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 coverage.
• Participate in non-functional testing strategies, including participation in performance evaluations and scalability testing

Requirements

The following requirements apply to this position:

• 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 is 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 pursue quality issues
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including structured root cause analysis
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills, including Agile/Scrum teams and DevOps setup
• High resilience and ability to work under changing priorities
• Experience in working with external providers