Automation QA/SDET

Senior QA Automation Engineer | Java, API & Playwright 🚨

I’m recruiting for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a globally recognised financial markets and infrastructure organisation, working across business-critical FX trading applications.

This is a hands-on automation role covering REST APIs and React-based user interfaces. You’ll design and maintain robust frameworks, increase regression coverage and integrate automated testing into modern CI/CD pipelines. The work includes complex FX trading workflows, matching systems and new API/UI components.

Key requirements:

✅ Strong Java automation experience

 ✅ REST API automation using RestAssured or equivalent

 ✅ UI automation using Playwright with Java

 ✅ TestNG or JUnit and Maven or Gradle

 ✅ CI/CD experience with GitLab or GitHub Actions

 ✅ experience building and maintaining automation frameworks

 ✅ Strong knowledge of JSON, XML, HTTP and request/response validation

 ✅ Comfortable deriving test scenarios from complex requirements

experience within FX, trading, financial markets or market infrastructure would be highly beneficial. Exposure to JMeter, AI-assisted testing, GitHub Copilot, Swagger/OpenAPI, observability or accessibility testing would also be advantageous.

Contract details:

📌 Initial 6-month contract with the intention to convert permanently

 📌 Inside IR35

 📌 Three days per week onsite in London

 📌 No sponsorship available

If you’re a Senior automation engineer who enjoys building frameworks and working on complex, business-critical systems, please get in touch.

Location

London, UK

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