Must-Have Qualifications • 5+ years in QA with a strong focus on test automation. • Automation frameworks: hands-on with UI automation (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium) and API automation (e.g. Postman, REST Assured, or RestSharp). • Programming: proficiency writing test code in JavaScript / TypeScript and/or C#, aligned to the project stack. • Test types: solid experience across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing, including unit/integration tooling such as Jest (JS/TS) and NUnit (.NET). • Layered architecture: experience testing across a Client → BFF → Middleware → Core structure, with a clear grasp of each tier's responsibilities and boundaries. • Messaging / event-driven: experience validating asynchronous flows with messaging and event-streaming tools such as RabbitMQ and Kafka. • CI/CD: integrating and running automated tests in pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) with Git. • Data validation: comfortable with REST APIs and SQL for verifying data across services and databases. • Banking / regulated SDLC: experience working within a bank's (or comparable regulated enterprise's) software development lifecycle and quality governance. • Analytical & communication skills: strong problem-solving and clear written and spoken English in a client-facing delivery setting.
