Senior QA Automation Engineer

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🕒 August 10

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Peratera

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

🔌 API

Fintech • B2B • API

Peratera is a UK-based electronic money institution (EMI) that provides multi-currency business accounts and cross-border payments for companies. It offers accounts in GBP, EUR, USD and 12+ other currencies, fast onboarding (accounts can be activated the same day once documents are provided), and transfers to 160+ countries using networks such as SWIFT, SEPA and Faster Payments. Peratera is FCA-authorised, safeguards client funds with regulated partner banks, provides competitive and transparent FX, and exposes a simple API to integrate payments, reporting and cashflow automation. Its product and marketing focus is on digital businesses including e-commerce, marketplaces, travel, import/export and freelance platforms, with features aimed at high-value transfers, transparent pricing, and secure authentication.

📋 Description

• Drive and support the evolving Technology Vision and newly defined CTO strategy • Ensure reliability, correctness and scalability of critical payment flows across the platform • Take ownership of end-to-end quality of deposit, payout and reconciliation payment flows • Validate business-critical scenarios and identify transaction-lifecycle risks • Design and execute API-first test scenarios • Build and maintain automated API and selective UI tests • Develop reusable test components, including clients and data builders • Test integrations with Open Banking and payment processors • Validate asynchronous flows involving callbacks, polling and retries • Investigate production issues and reproduce bugs • Work with logs, databases and API traces • Support root cause analysis • Work closely with backend engineers on testability • Define acceptance criteria with the product team • Contribute to release quality gates • Help establish regression testing strategy • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, including smoke tests and pre-release checks • Improve overall engineering quality standards

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with API testing (REST, JSON, HTTP) • Strong understanding of backend systems • Experience with test automation using Playwright, RestAssured or similar • Ability to debug issues using logs and databases • Understanding of asynchronous systems, including callbacks, queues and retries • Experience in payments or fintech • Experience with CI/CD pipelines • SQL and data validation skills • Experience with distributed systems • Prompt engineering for AI-assisted QA and test automation • Hands-on experience with AI tools for QA automation

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive, market-aligned compensation • Opportunity to work on a high-impact product with real-world scale • Modern tech environment and engineering-driven culture • International, distributed team with a collaborative mindset • Supportive team culture focused on knowledge sharing and ownership • Remote-friendly setup with flexible working hour