QA Engineer (Banking Experience)

QA Engineer (Banking Experience)

Northampton, Northamptonshire - £405 Per day in Inside IR35 Contract Posted by: GIOS Technology Limited

We are hiring for QA Engineer (Banking Experience)

Location: Northampton - Hybrid/2-3 days Per week in Office

• Strong hands‑on experience in Quality Engineering/Test Automation across APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Jest, TypeScript, Playwright, JUnit, and Gradle.
• Practical experience testing Apache Kafka, including topic seeding, asynchronous validation, consumer behaviour, lag monitoring, replay testing, and resilience scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of API testing, contract testing, JSON Schema, and AJV.
• Experience with performance, load, scalability, and resilience testing for low‑latency and high‑throughput systems.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD quality gates, automated test reporting, test data management, and release validation.
• Good knowledge of TDD, BDD, mocking frameworks, specification-by-example, and shift‑left Quality Engineering.
• Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot applications and the ability to support service‑level test automation and validation.

Key Skills

• Quality Engineering
• Test Automation
• APIs
• Contract testing
• Java
• Banking
• Kafka

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK

Industry: IT, Finance

Duration: 31/05/2027

Start Date: 19/10/2026

Rate: £405 Per day in Inside IR35

Employment Business: GIOS Technology Limited