Senior Automation QA Engineer (with Manual expertise)

N-iX is a global software development service company with over 2,400 professionals across 40+ countries, working on projects for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Their expertise includes cloud, data, AI/ML, embedded software, and IoT, serving industries such as finance, manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare. The client is a leading, fully regulated US-based digital asset trading platform providing secure, low-latency access to cryptocurrency markets, bridging traditional finance and the Web3 ecosystem.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Approximately 8 years of hands-on manual and automated testing experience, or 6 years with an advanced degree.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with rapid iteration cycles and CI/CD-driven release processes.
• Strong proficiency in Java (primary automation language) and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Proven experience testing across mobile (iOS/Android) and web platforms.
• Hands-on with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, XCUITest, or Espresso.
• Strong API/backend testing experience including REST Assured, Postman, pytest + requests, contract testing, mocking, and test data management.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling, or Locust), including defining KPIs, running tests, and analyzing results.
• Familiarity with security testing fundamentals (OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, authentication/authorization flows).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) for test environments.
• Hands-on with databases—both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB)—for test data validation.
• Experience with message queues/streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and validating asynchronous data flows.
• Proficiency with Git and modern source control workflows.
• Experience with test management and bug tracking tools (JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or equivalent) and clear bug reporting practices.
• Experience working in FinTech, banking, trading, or other highly regulated environments with awareness of security and compliance best practices.
• Hands-on experience or strong interest in blockchain, crypto, or Web3 products; familiarity with wallets, transactions, gas, confirmations, smart contracts, testnets, and on-chain data validation tools is a strong plus.

• Executing and managing test cases and results, reporting on test and defect metrics.
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating testing activities.
• Identifying, recording, documenting thoroughly, and tracking bugs.
• Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Designing, developing, and executing automation scripts using internal automation framework and system.
• Developing and applying testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Acting as a strong advocate for quality in the product development and engineering process including test tooling improvements and automation.
• Working with engineers to determine bottlenecks in the existing release process.
• Staying up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.

EU (work late hours till 20:00)