Senior QA Engineer

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:

Belfast (3 days per week in office)
Salary:
Up to £60,000 + bonus

A global financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join its Technology team, working on complex, high-availability trading and market infrastructure platforms.

This role sits within an Agile engineering team and acts as a strong advocate for quality, driving shift-left testing practices, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD). You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Developers to ensure high-quality software is delivered at the end of every sprint.

The role is automation-focused, with a strong emphasis on API-level testing, CI/CD integration and ownership of quality across the full software development lifecycle.

• Act as the quality advocate within an Agile delivery team
• Drive BDD, TDD and shift-left testing approaches across the team
• Design, build and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines
• Lead test strategy decisions each sprint, including functional, automation and non-functional testing
• Collaborate with global development, QA and analysis teams
• Mentor and coach engineers to improve quality standards and practices
• Promote quality-first engineering practices including unit testing and code reviews
• Own testing outcomes for key features through to delivery
• Communicate progress, risks and blockers clearly to stakeholders

• 5+ years' experience as a senior QA automation engineer
• Strong experience with UI and API automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or similar
• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript or similar scripting languages
• Experience designing and maintaining end-to-end automated test frameworks
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Git Lab or Team City
• Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber
• Strong understanding of non‑functional testing including performance, load and stress testing
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe delivery environments
• Excellent communication, organisation and problem‑solving skills

Desirable experience includes financial or trading platforms, FIX protocol automation, AWS, microservices, serverless architectures and relevant testing certifications.

Apply here or reach out to Aaron Somers at Ocho for more information via Linked In.