QA Automation Engineer

Shape the Future of Financial Services with Capco

At Capco, we specialize in management consulting and software development, partnering with leading international banks and insurance companies across Western Europe. Our innovative approach and collaborative culture make us the ideal place for professionals looking to make an impact in financial services technology.

Role Description

This role safeguards software quality by making sure that test approaches, delivery plans, and agreed testing outputs are implemented across the applications and initiatives within the assigned area. The scope includes: 

• Creating and carrying out test methods and frameworks that validate software and technical solutions against their intended functional behavior. 
• Examining failures or unexpected behavior in software and other technology products to identify underlying issues. 
• Establishing and applying quality assurance practices that contribute to business development efforts. 
• Promoting proven standards and policies, and helping to strengthen the methods and reusable assets used by the business. 
• Partnering with colleagues across the organization to improve QA standards throughout the bank. 
• Documenting defects and consolidating metrics and KPI data for management reporting. 
• Working across disciplines such as performance testing, automation, testing processes, and test products. 

Primary Accountabilities 

• Build, enhance, and support automated test scripts in Java using tools and frameworks including Cucumber BDD, Selenium, Playwright, and RestAssured. 
• Work closely with software engineering and QA colleagues to understand functionality and assemble a resilient, end-to-end automation suite. 
• Connect automated tests to CI/CD workflows, including Jenkins, so testing and deployment can run continuously. 
• Plan and perform performance, load, and stress tests to validate the stability and scalability of applications. 
• Contribute to peer code reviews and recommend improvements that maintain high standards in test code. 
• Interpret test outcomes, produce clear reports, and enhance coverage, traceability, and overall testing efficiency. 
• Monitor new testing tools, techniques, and practices, applying relevant developments to improve the test lifecycle. 
• Prepare test cases directly and use test management platforms such as TestOps and JIRA. 

Skills and Expertise

• A minimum of seven years of professional experience in automated testing. 
• Advanced Java capability together with practical knowledge of frameworks such as Serenity BDD, Cucumber, and Gatling. 
• Practical experience with source control, continuous integration and delivery, and build tooling, including Git, Jenkins, and Gradle. 
• A proven background in validating REST APIs and web-based services. 
• Experience working with message-queue technologies such as MQ and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka. 
• Working knowledge of database validation, SQL querying, relational database systems, and Big Data environments. 
• Understanding of behavior-driven and test-driven development, supported by tools such as Cucumber or JBehave. 
• Previous delivery experience within Agile and Scrum teams. 
• Strong capabilities in analysis, issue resolution, and professional communication. 
• The flexibility to collaborate effectively in a high-tempo, team-based setting.
• Knowledge of German is nice to have but not a must.