QA Automation Engineer Senior

Project description

Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world-famous clients. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. This project involves a large-scale backend data migration and consolidation initiative that supports the modernization of a major retail banking environment. The objective is to migrate and unify data from multiple legacy banking systems into new state-of-the-art solutions hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enabling improved scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency. The delivery team contributes to the migration of backend data while preserving the existing application architecture, ensuring business continuity and minimizing operational risk. This initiative supports the consolidation of fragmented data sources into modern platforms, improves data accessibility and quality, enhances regulatory compliance capabilities, and establishes a scalable cloud-based foundation for future digital services and advanced analytics. In parallel, the program leverages Agentic AI capabilities to enhance operational efficiency, automate repetitive migration tasks, and improve data validation and reconciliation processes. These capabilities contribute to the development of a large-scale AI Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on data migration and transformation initiatives, enabling standardized automation frameworks, reusable AI-driven components, and scalable best practices across the broader banking technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation scripts to test web applications and API endpoints using test automation frameworks. Work closely with developers, product owners, and other QA team members to identify and prioritize test cases for automation. Execute automated tests, analyze, and report results, and work with the team to resolve defects. Drive quality initiatives by identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and implementing best practices in test automation. Collaborate with developers and QA engineers to define test strategies, coverage, and reporting standards. Work in an Agile/Scrum environment, attend daily stand-up meetings, provide feedback, and contribute to sprint retrospectives. Support and mentor QA and development team members in using the automation framework.

SKILLS

Must have

• 5+ years of hands on experience in Test Automation. Experience in at least one programming language and software development best practices (Java/OOP preferred). Experience with automated testing frameworks (Selenium + Java preferred). Knowledge of BDD methodology, practical experience in BDD testing. Strong experience with API Testing and tools (Postman, Soap UI). Experience with load and performance testing (jMeter). Strong experience with test planning, test documentation, defect tracking, reporting tools (ALM, Jira, TestRail or similar). Knowledge of databases. Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices and tooling (Jenkins, TeamCity, OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes). Solid understanding of Scrum, Kanban and/or Agile software development methodologies. At least a basic understanding of retail banking and operations processes. Proven ability to design and implement a complete automated testing solution from scratch, including: ○ Test framework development ○ Test reporting setup ○ Integration with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., TeamCity, Jenkins) Experience with various testing types, ideally including: ○ Frontend testing ○ Backend/API testing ○ Load and Performance testing

Nice to have

Experience in testing digital banking applications, core banking systems, or payment platforms. Google Cloud Platform Engineering / knowledge of other major Cloud providers Working knowledge of Docker (images, containers) Familiarity with Kubernetes and HELM (considered a strong plus) Previous experience training or mentoring QA and development team members on test framework usage Demonstrated capability to initiate and lead QA automation projects from the ground up Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to propose and implement scalable QA solutions.