Quality assurance engineer (hybrid)

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER (HYBRID)

📍 Location: Lisbon, Portugal

⚠️ Only candidates already based in Portugal will be considered

✈️ Travel: Availability to travel within and outside Portugal

🗣️ Language Requirements: English (B2 mandatory) | French (B1 nice to have)

🕓 Seniority: Senior (3-6 years)

🏭 Sector: Banking

⚠️ Instructions: Please send your CV in English and make sure to include all skills and experience that match the requirements of the opportunity.

About the Project

A major international organization is expanding its Data & AI initiatives, supporting the development of global analytics and AI solutions used by 100+ data scientists across 30+ countries.

The team develops transversal analytics services (TAS), offering ready-to-use solutions such as document recognition, voice-to-text transcription, model monitoring, and data storage.

To support this strategic program, we are looking for a highly motivated QA Automation Engineer with a strong technical background and an agile mindset.

Your Mission

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will design and execute automated test strategies to ensure high quality, performance, and reliability across critical software solutions.

You will work closely with developers, product owners, business analysts, DevOps, and other QA professionals in an Agile/Scrum environment, contributing directly to continuous delivery and improved testing practices.

Key Responsibilities

Test Automation

- Design, develop, and maintain reusable automated test frameworks

- Create, enhance, and debug automation tools and test suites

- Execute automated tests for functional, regression, and performance validation

- Analyze results, identify defects, and ensure fast resolution with development teams

Test Strategy & Planning

- Define test plans and automation strategies for new features

- Identify automation candidates based on risk and business impact

- Collaborate with product and technical teams to clarify requirements

CI/CD & Continuous Testing

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

- Support continuous testing and rapid feedback cycles

- Work with DevOps to manage test environments

Agile Collaboration & Communication

- Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives

- Report testing progress, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders

Continuous Improvement

- Stay updated on automation tools and best practices

- Propose improvements to processes, frameworks, and overall software quality

Required Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or related field

- 5 years of software testing experience

- 3+ years focused on Automation Testing

- Strong proficiency in Java (OOP)

- Strong knowledge of Automation Testing Tools, such as:

- UI Testing: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright

- API Testing: Postman, Rest-Assured

- Strong experience with BDD methodologies

- Hands-on experience with Cucumber

- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI)

- Agile/Scrum experience

- Strong analytical and debugging skills

- High attention to detail and strong quality mindset

Performance Testing

- Experience with JMeter and/or LoadRunner is a plus

Nice to Have

- Docker / Containerization

- Testing applications in Cloud environments

- Certifications: ISTQB / ASTQB

- Bash Scripting

- Agentic AI / AI-driven testing

- French (B1)

Keywords for CV (comma-separated)

Quality Assurance, QA Engineer, Automation Testing, Test Automation, Java, OOP, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, Rest-Assured, API Testing, UI Testing, BDD, Cucumber, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Agile, Scrum, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, JMeter, LoadRunner, Docker, Cloud Testing, Bash Scripting, Dynatrace, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Defect Management, Continuous Testing, Data & AI, REST API, Lisbon, English B2, French B1

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