Senior Test Automation Engineer

Our partner is an international technology-driven organization strengthening its internal engineering capabilities to support business-critical systems and long-term digital transformation initiatives. Their teams are focused on improving operational excellence, platform reliability, and engineering ownership across a complex global technology landscape. As part of this journey, they are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to help drive quality excellence across business-critical software platforms. This role combines hands-on test automation, manual and exploratory testing, defect analysis, and release validation, ensuring reliable software delivery while building scalable quality practices and automation frameworks across engineering teams.

Your Impact

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test coverage for web, API, mobile, and enterprise applications.
  
• Execute manual, exploratory, regression, integration, and release validation testing to ensure product quality and reduce production risk.
  
• Build and enhance test automation frameworks, reusable test utilities, and regression testing strategies.
  
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, and DevOps teams to improve testability, release readiness, and quality standards.
  
• Identify, analyze, and track defects while supporting UAT activities, root cause investigations, and production issue prevention.
  
• Drive continuous improvement by expanding automation coverage, strengthening QA processes, and mentoring junior QA team members.
  

Requirements

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance with strong expertise in both manual testing and test automation.
  
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, or similar frameworks.
  
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, API, exploratory, and release validation testing methodologies.
  
• Ability to write and maintain code in languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Python, or Java, with experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Practical knowledge of API testing, SQL, defect management, test planning, and validation of complex business workflows.
  
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills with a proactive ownership mindset and focus on delivering high-quality software.
  

Benefits

Other Details:

• Hybrid working model with a modern Budapest office

• Opportunity to work on large-scale business-critical systems

• International and collaborative engineering environment

• Long-term career growth and professional development opportunities

• High-impact role with strong ownership and technical influence