Experience as a test engineer, QA engineer, or SDET - you have designed teststrategies and written test code, not just executed test plansAbility to write test automation code - this is a hands-on coding roleStrong analytical skills - you can read a specification, a data model, or an event schema and identify the cases that will cause problemsExperience working within agile delivery teams - particularly contributing to refinement, challenging requirements, and shaping what gets builtPragmatic approach to quality - you optimise for confidence, not coverage numbersExperience with CI/CD integration - your tests run in the pipeline, not as a separate activityFamiliarity with event-driven architectures and the testing challenges they introduce - ordering, idempotency, eventual consistencyComfortable working with Kafka - publishing test events, consuming and asserting on outputs, debugging message flowsStrong SQL skills - you will write comparison queries across systems, verify financial calculations, and spot data discrepanciesComfortable with Docker and containerised test environmentsExperience with modern test tooling such as Testcontainers, JUnit, REST Assured, or equivalentExperience in financial services, payments, or acquiringExperience with migration or platform replacement validation - comparing outputs between legacy and new systemsExperience with performance or load testing
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