QA Engineer – Automation / CI Testing
Remote (UK) | Occasional Team Meet-Ups in Norfolk
6-Month Contract | Inside IR35
Potential Permanent Opportunity
Rate £350 - £450
Cooper Lomaz are recruiting for a QA Engineer to join a global payments technology organisation delivering secure digital and SaaS-based payment solutions to financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprise customers internationally.
This role will support a key transformation project focused on bringing a previously outsourced platform fully in-house, working closely with both UK and US engineering teams to enhance software quality, testing automation, and delivery capability across a modern Agile environment.
The Role
You will play a key role in developing and improving automated testing capability across business-critical platforms within a highly collaborative engineering team. The environment is heavily focused on continuous improvement, scalable delivery practices, and modern CI/CD principles.
The successful candidate will be involved in:
* Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
* Developing continuous integration and automated testing pipelines
* Acceptance, regression, and integration testing
* Supporting quality assurance across backend services and platform releases
* Collaborating with distributed development teams across the UK and US
* Helping transition systems and testing ownership from third-party vendors into the internal engineering function
Required Experience
* Commercial experience as a QA Engineer / Automation Test Engineer
* Strong experience writing automated tests within CI/CD environments
* Experience building and maintaining testing pipelines
* Strong technical experience with:
* Python
* Django
* Kotlin
* TeamCity
* Experience working within Agile software delivery teams
* Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desirable Experience
* API and integration testing
* Cloud-based environments
* DevOps tooling and deployment pipelines
* Experience working on enterprise SaaS or fintech/payment platforms
* Experience transitioning systems from outsourced vendors to internal teams
Contract Details
* Initial 6-month contract
* Inside IR35
* Fully remote working
* Occasional meet-ups in Norfolk
* Long-term opportunity with potential for permanent transition
* Requirement to complete a DBS and background check on offer (funded by Cooper Lomaz)
This is an excellent opportunity to join a business investing heavily in technology, innovation, and modern engineering capability within the payments and digital solutions space