About this role
Job title: Senior QA Automation Engineer
About the Role Join Luxoft as a Senior QA Automation Engineer supporting a leading global institutional investor. You will design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts, drive shift-left validation in an Agile environment, and collaborate with business, T&D partner teams, and developers to ensure scalable, high-quality software.
What You'll Do
- Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence to improve efficiency and test coverage.
- Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to QA/QE to automate.
- Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
- Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
- Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
- Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing.
- Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
- Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth.
- Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar)
- Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows
- Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development
- SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification
- Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferred
- Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset
- Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus
- English: C1 Advanced
Nice to Have
- AWS cloud testing experience
- Performance and load testing exposure