Senior QA Automation Engineer
Client Server · London, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 21 Oct 2026.
Overview
You will lead automated testing for a real-time energy trading platform in fintech, focusing on end-to-end integrations and data flows. You will own testing across system connections, APIs, and third-party interfaces, shaping the overall QA strategy with autonomy. The role blends hands-on automation with collaboration to meet operational needs, supporting stakeholder requirements and user acceptance testing. This is a high-impact position in a scaling fintech with a modern data platform and AI-assisted data processing.
Pay / Benefits
- Salary to 90k
- Remote working
- Impactful role with complex challenges
- Career growth opportunities as the company scales
Responsibilities
- Establish automated test coverage from the ground up across API-led integrations
- Test end-to-end data journeys and system connections between multiple platforms
- Work with third-party integrations and non-standard interfaces to validate data ingestion
- Define acceptance criteria and support user acceptance testing
- Take ownership of testing strategy, tooling, and approach with high autonomy
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into test scenarios
- Review Claude outputs as part of daily testing activities
Key requirements
- Strong Playwright Test Automation skills
- Experience testing APIs and complex data flows across multiple systems
- Autonomous with ability to make technical decisions
- Experience in trading/finance environments with numeracy skills
- Collaborative, pragmatic communication and stakeholder management
- STEM degree from a top-tier university (e.g., Computer Science, Maths, Economics, Physics)
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- strong communication
- Playwright Test Automation
- API testing
- data flow validation
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