Job VC

A
Banking & Financial Services
client is building a new digital platform, and the Automation QA environment is being created
from scratch
.
You will join a QA team of 5–7 engineers, and grow into a fully modern automation stack — Cypress, REST Assured, contract testing, AWS-native CI/CD.
This is a strong role for an automation engineer who already writes solid tests and wants to see how a QA environment is designed properly, from day one, on a regulated banking program.

Engagement:
5–6 months with a strong possibility of extension.
Start:
ASAP.
Format:
mostly remote, with occasional on-site presence in Germany for kickoff and workshops.

What you will do
Write and maintain automated tests in
Cypress
(UI / E2E) and
REST Assured
(API).
Cover
API and Integration
scenarios; contribute to
Contract Testing
suites under the guidance of Senior engineers.
Run and stabilize test suites in
CI/CD
(GitHub Actions) and on
BrowserStack
.
Prepare test data, including synthetic data sets.
Analyze failures, investigate root causes, and report defects clearly in Jira.
Contribute to test coverage and quality reporting.
Participate in code reviews and grow under the mentorship of the QA Architect and Senior engineers.

Requirements
3+ years in QA, with at least ~2 years of hands-on test automation.
Practical experience with
Cypress
(or a comparable JS/TS E2E framework with willingness to switch).
API testing
experience; familiarity with
REST Assured
or readiness to pick it up quickly.
Understanding of automation fundamentals: page objects / component patterns, test isolation, flakiness control.
Experience in
Banking / Financial Services
or another
regulated domain
.
Comfortable working with Git, CI pipelines, Jira and Confluence.
Basic understanding of
AWS
and cloud-native applications.

Nice to have
Exposure to
Contract Testing
.
Familiarity with Java (Spring Boot) or Angular codebases.
Experience with BrowserStack or similar.
Experience with synthetic / masked test data

Mandatory (please read before applying)
You must be
based in Germany
(residence + right to work / valid B2B contracting status).
Fluent German (C1+) is mandatory
— it is the primary working language with the client.
Professional English (B2+) for technical documentation and the extended team.
Applications that do not meet these three criteria cannot be considered.