QA Engineer (f/m/d)

About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and quality-driven QA Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with software engineers, functional analysts, and product stakeholders to ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality software solutions. You will play a key role in designing, automating, and executing tests across the software development lifecycle while contributing to the continuous improvement of our quality assurance practices and testing strategy.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers, functional analysts, and product teams to understand new features, refine requirements, and define meaningful test scenarios.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain integration, end-to-end (E2E), regression, and exploratory tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Develop new automated test cases and continuously improve and maintain existing test suites.
• Design and execute functional test cases, both manual and automated.
• Ensure compliance with established product testing standards, quality requirements, and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews with a focus on testability, maintainability, and overall product quality.
• Ensure test coverage aligns with business-critical workflows, system integrations, and trading scenarios.
• Validate integrations between services, APIs, messaging systems, and external components.
• Conduct exploratory testing to uncover edge cases, usability concerns, and potential system risks.
• Analyze test results, identify defects, support root cause analysis, and collaborate with software engineers on resolution.
• Document testing activities, test results, and quality metrics in a clear and structured manner.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, frameworks, and automation practices.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate testing into CI pipelines and ensure rapid feedback on software changes.
• Contribute to the definition, implementation, and evolution of the overall testing strategy.

Your Profile

• Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and Agile software development practices.
• Passion for software quality, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Experience designing and executing tests at different levels, including integration, end-to-end (E2E), regression, and exploratory testing.
• Ability to review, understand, and contribute to automated tests implemented in Java or Kotlin.
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
• Experience using Git for source code version control and collaboration within software development teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex systems and identify risks or gaps.
• Familiarity with CI pipelines and modern software development workflows.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and collaborate closely with software engineers, functional analysts, and product stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive mindset.

Would Be an Advantage

• Experience with tools and technologies such as GitHub, Docker, and Jenkins.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
• Experience with build and dependency management tools such as Gradle or Maven.
• Experience working with trading platforms, energy markets, or other business-critical transaction systems.