Senior QA Engineer

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Senior QA Engineer

Fnality

Role Description Fnality is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (who must be from a payments background) who can demonstrate competencies which will enable them to successfully: - Work in a fast-paced, regulated environment in the financial sector. - Plan and execute the entire testing process, including test optimization and improvement. - Communicate and work closely with colleagues in a remote setting, suggesting improvements and highlighting when communication is not at its optimum. - Encourage a risk culture that is embedded in every policy and process of the company (Technology, Security, Personnel, Environment etc). - Promote an open and honest company culture, encouraging servant leadership as best practice within the organisation. Role Responsibilities - Supporting the Head of QA in designing, documenting, scheduling, and coordinating test scenarios, engaging with internal and external stakeholders to deliver robust and appropriate tests. - Bringing together various colleagues and teams to deliver against testing outcomes. - Writing the scripts required to run tests. - Supporting the Head of QA on full end-to-end lifecycle of testing including business testing, product testing and operational testing. - Defining, developing, and performing acceptance tests as part of route to live (functional & non-functional tests) on software received from technology vendors. - Testing regular updates and releases across several environments including SIT, Pre-Production, and Production. Including end to end testing and stress testing. - Running Fedwire Participant testing including Federal Reserve System upgrades at regular intervals in line with stated requirements. - Conducting SWIFT testing within MX environments. - Carrying out business process tests such as disaster recovery and business continuity, including backup and recovery validation. Qualifications - Extensive experience in leading and delivering enterprise-scale testing programmes, with a strong understanding of enterprise operations including change management, incident management, regulatory compliance, release governance, environment management, and wholesale payment systems. - Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining enterprise automation frameworks, including: - API test automation using Java - UI automation using Playwright - Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) using Cucumber/Gherkin - Framework design that is scalable, maintainable and reusable across multiple products. - Strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD test pipelines, integrating automated testing into release processes using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or equivalent, with automated reporting, quality gates and deployment validation. - Experience in designing automation strategies that maximise regression coverage while reducing execution time, maintenance effort and operational risk. - Practical experience leveraging AI-powered tools to improve software quality, including accelerating test design, test data generation, defect analysis, root cause investigation, code reviews, automation development and overall engineering productivity. - Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including test automation architecture, API validation, contract testing, service integration testing, environment management and continuous testing. - Deep understanding of blockchain platforms, digital asset infrastructure, blockchain wallets, regulated financial market infrastructures and systemically important payment systems. - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Operations, DevOps and Architecture teams, as well as with external partners, customers and regulators. Able to clearly communicate technical risks, manage expectations and build confidence in Fnality's technology and delivery capability. - Experience working closely with Tier 1 Banks, Central Banks (Bank of England, ECB, Federal Reserve) and financial regulators, supporting mission-critical production platforms and ensuring high availability and operational resilience. - Excellent understanding of payments, settlement systems and financial market infrastructure, including real-time and high-value payment systems. - Strong knowledge of ISO 20022, CBPR+, SWIFT messaging and cross-border payment processing. - Experience with application performance monitoring, observability, event management and production diagnostics. - Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, trend analysis, root cause investigation and quality metrics to support continuous improvement. - Working knowledge of enterprise monitoring, logging and operational tooling required to support highly available payment platforms. - Good understanding of payment system behaviour under stress, resilience testing, capacity planning and market events such as Month-End, Quarter-End and Year-End settlement cycles, ensuring platform readiness under peak transaction volumes. Benefits - Supportive culture that helps to bring the best out of each employee. - Encouragement to explore new ideas and solve problems together. - Open and honest culture that enables flexibility and wellbeing. - Agility, speed, and innovation of a start-up with a flexible working environment. Eligibility This role is a UK based role and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note we cannot sponsor visas for this role.

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