Senior QA Automation Engineer (Trading Systems | AI-Native | Greenfield)
London - Hybrid
£80,000-£90,000
We’re partnering with a high-growth engineering team building next-generation trading infrastructure from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to join a greenfield project with a strong focus on AI-native development and automation-first quality engineering.
If you enjoy working close to the system, solving complex problems, and shaping how quality is built into modern trading platforms, this is worth a look.
What you’ll be doing
* Designing and building automation frameworks from scratch across UI and backend
* Establishing UI testing capability from zero, owning the approach, tooling, and implementation end-to-end
* Working closely with engineers on real-time trading workflows (order lifecycle, execution, market data)
* Embedding AI into QA processes to improve test generation, coverage, and efficiency
* Driving automation-first testing strategy in a fast-moving, high-impact environment
Tech environment
* Playwright, Cypress, Selenium
* Java, Python, TypeScript / JavaScript
* API testing (REST, messaging, event-driven systems)
* CI/CD (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
* FIX / trading systems highly beneficial
What we’re looking for
* Strong hands-on QA / SDET background with automation at the core
* Experience building or owning UI automation frameworks from scratch
* Exposure to complex, real-time or trading systems - this is essential, candidates without experience working on financial trading systems cannot be considered.
* Comfortable owning frameworks and working closely with developers
* Interest in AI-native tooling and modern engineering practices
* This is an opportunity to join a small, high-calibre team where you’ll have real ownership and impact from day one.