Senior QA Automation Engineer

About Us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. Your mission You’ll drive and support the evolving Technology Vision and newly defined CTO strategy, ensure reliability, correctness and scalability of critical payment flows across the platform by combining exploratory testing with automation-first practices. Your Tech Environment You’ll be working in a modern, scalable tech environment built around Java (Spring Boot) and REST APIs on the backend, with React and PHP powering the frontend. Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, and the platform is designed as a set of distributed services with multiple external integrations, including payment providers. We follow an API-first, automation-driven testing approach, leveraging tools like Playwright to ensure high reliability and fast delivery across critical payment flows. What You’ll Do Core Quality Ownership Take ownership of end-to-end quality of payment flows (deposit, payout, reconciliation) Validate business-critical scenarios, not just features Identify risks in transaction lifecycle (e.g. callback failures, timeouts) Testing and Automation Design and execute API-first test scenarios Build and maintain automated tests (API + selective UI) Develop reusable test components (clients, data builders) Integration Testing Test integrations and implement automation integration flow with external providers (Open Banking, payment processors) Validate async flows (callbacks, polling, retries) Debugging and Production Support Investigate production issues and reproduce bugs Work with logs, DB and API traces Support root cause analysis Collaboration Work closely with backend engineers on testability Define acceptance criteria with product team Contribute to release quality gates Continuous Improvement Help establish regression Testing Strategy Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (smoke tests, pre-release checks) Improve overall engineering quality standards What We’re Looking For Experience with API testing (REST, JSON, HTTP) Strong understanding of backend systems Experience with test automation (Playwright / RestAssured / similar) Ability to debug issues using logs and databases Understanding of async systems (callbacks, queues, retries) Experience in payments / fintech Experience with CI/CD pipelines Nice to Have SQL / data validation skills Experience with distributed systems Prompt engineering for AI-assisted QA and test automation Hands-on experience with AI tools for QA automation What You’ll Get Competitive, market-aligned compensation Opportunity to work on a high-impact product with real-world scale Modern tech environment and engineering-driven culture International, distributed team with a collaborative mindset Supportive team culture focused on knowledge sharing and ownership Remote-friendly setup with flexible working hour Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you! About us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. www.peratera.com