About the role
Practice
Quality Engineering
Job Title
QE Automation Engineer
Reporting To
Director
Experience
4+ Years
We are seeking a mid-level QE Automation Engineer to support our financial services platform. The successful candidate will focus on building scalable end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript, while also leveraging AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and KIRO to generate, execute, and maintain automated test suites for a financial services platform. Key Responsibilities and Duties
Requirement analysis and test design:
·Review business, functional, and technical requirements to validate expected system behaviour.
·Create comprehensive manual test cases and automated test scripts.
Automation framework and test development:
·Build, maintain, and scale robust end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript or JavaScript.
·Develop and maintain automated test suites covering critical business workflows.
AI and MCP agent development:
·Use GitHub Copilot and KIRO to generate test scripts, optimize code, and accelerate test coverage.
·Create custom AI agents and work with MCP-based agent workflows.
Test execution and CI/CD:
·Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
·Execute, monitor, and report on automated test runs.
API testing:
·Design and execute automated tests for RESTful and GraphQL APIs alongside UI workflows.
Defect management:
·Identify, isolate, document, and track defects through resolution using Jira.
Collaboration:
·Work closely with developers and product managers to identify automation candidates during the design phase.
Financial validation:
·Automate complex financial workflows, including transaction processing, ledger balancing, and compliance reporting.
Cloud testing environments:
·Leverage cloud-based virtual desktops to run, debug, and validate tests securely.
Mandatory Skills:Project Mandatory Skills
Project Desired Skills
·Playwright automation with TypeScript (strong expertise)
·Creating custom AI agents and MCP-based workflows for automated testing
·GitHub Copilot and KIRO for test lifecycle acceleration
·Automated API testing for RESTful and GraphQL services
·Page Object Model design and asynchronous execution handling
·CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions or Jenkins
·Defect management using Jira
·Financial platform architectures, transaction workflows, and data security practices
·Amazon WorkSpaces for secure developer or testing environments
·AWS Lambda for event-driven test scripts or infrastructure triggers
·JavaScript-based automation in addition to TypeScript
·Experience automating ledger balancing and compliance reporting
Qualifications:·Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
·3+ years of professional software QA automation experience.
·Strong expertise in Playwright automation and TypeScript programming.
·Hands-on experience creating custom AI agents and working with MCP agents or MCP-based workflows.
·Proficiency with GitHub Copilot and KIRO to accelerate test lifecycle development.
·Understanding of financial platform architectures, data security practices, or transaction workflows.
·Strong knowledge of Page Object Model, asynchronous execution handling, and API testing.
·Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.