QA Automation Engineer

Who We Are:

Moneycorp powers global payments for corporates, institutions and high net worth individuals, combining worldwide reach with local expertise. With over 45 years of market experience, two banking licences and offices in 11 countries, our technology delivers 24/7 accessibility, while our people deliver award-winning service. In 2024, we supported $1tn+ of payment volume, reaching 190 countries in 130 currencies. Our 32k+ corporate clients benefit from our regulatory resilience with 63+ permissions globally, access to major payment rails, and our proprietary technology.   

Moneycorp is a place where energy, commitment, and collaboration are core to our values of shared success. We’re restless in our drive to surpass the expectations of our customers and unlock opportunities to support them at every stage of their journey. The foundation of our success is our people, and nurturing a culture of belonging for all our colleagues is central to our journey as a global business.  

Role Purpose:

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to lead automated testing practices within our Romania technology hub. This is a hands-on technical role focused on test design, automation development, and quality assurance across multiple software delivery streams. Working nearshore in a collaborative agile team, the QA Automation Engineer will own automated test coverage across UI, API, and non-functional layers, using a C# / Playwright-based framework.

The role requires genuine technical depth — writing clean, maintainable test code, validating system integrations, and ensuring confidence in quality across each sprint. This person will work closely with QA Leads, developers, and product stakeholders to embed quality throughout the SDLC, with a particular focus on end-to-end holistic test design spanning multiple components and integration boundaries.

Role Responsibilities:

End-to-End Test Design & System Thinking

• Design holistic e2e test strategies spanning multiple components, services, and integration points — not just isolated feature tests.
• Comprehension of the business and its applications to enable both functional and integration testing
• Gather requirements and identify suitable mapped test cases for execution
• Employ techniques to determine the value of test cases which allows prioritisation categorisation
• Identify functional test cases viable for regression test packs
• Provide detailed analysis for each test cycle of the test output and verify the expected requirement and acceptance criteria
• Facilitate peer reviews with cross-functional team members

Planning & Estimating

• Be part of and embrace Sprint planning to ensure adequate estimations and meet deadline deliveries
• Highlight gaps or ambiguous requirements to enable efficient planning and test estimations
• Provide complete task activity estimations for assigned Sprint stories
• Develop appropriate end-2-end test plans to facilitate execution and reporting

Test Execution & Automation

• Be part of and embrace Sprint planning to ensure adequate estimations and meet deadline deliveries
• Highlight gaps or ambiguous requirements to enable efficient planning and test estimations
• Provide complete task activity estimations for assigned Sprint stories
• Develop appropriate end-2-end test plans to facilitate execution and reporting

Communication & Reporting

• Take part in all Scrum activities, including Sprint Planning, refinement sessions, stand-ups and retrospectives
• Progress reporting to peers, Scrum team, QA Lead/Manager and stakeholders
• Ensure task activities are transparent
• Escalate blockers impeding task progression or completion of project deliver
• Collaborate with Development, IT or DevOps 

Working to targets

• Achieve activity targets set during Sprint Planning and/or Head of QA

What We’re Looking For:

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Proven hands-on QA / SDET experience in an agile software delivery environment
• Practical experience in test planning, test case design and test progress reporting
• Test Management & Defect Tracking: Azure DevOps, TestRail, Jira
• Test Automation Framework: Playwright + C# (NUnit)
• API Testing: Postman (collections, Newman, monitors)
• Performance Testing: K6, Artillery, LoadRunner
• Email / SMTP Testing: SMTP integration, Mailhog, Mailosaur
• BDD: SpecFlow / Cucumber, Gherkin (Given/When/Then)
• Data-Driven Testing: Parameterised test suites, test data factories
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes (kubectl, pod inspection)
• Event-Driven Testing: Kafka, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ
• Observability & Logging: Azure Application Insights, KQL queries
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
• Agentic engineering practices

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience working for a financial institution
• Experience defining and executing non-functional tests cases using standard testing techniques.

Education / Qualifications:

• Degree educated with a Computer Science or equivalent degree
• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation certifications or equivalent (desirable)

Location and Contract Type:

This is a full-time, permanent position.  

Fostering a culture of belonging and inclusivity 

We're committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture where diversity thrives, and we empower our colleagues to drive meaningful change within our organization through Employee Engagement initiatives and value champion networks. 
 
Like many of our peers, we recognize that fostering inclusivity is an ongoing journey, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to progress. By measuring our efforts through regular assessments and listening to the feedback of our employees, we strive to ensure that our initiatives are impactful and responsive to the evolving needs of our workforce. 
 
Together, we want to build a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, as we believe this is the foundation of innovation, creativity, and collective success.  
 

Interested?

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please click on the “Apply Now” button to submit your application.

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